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An officer of the United States, with the commission of Major, with the national uniform, has been pushed from a car on Pennsylvania Avenue for no other offence than that he was black.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “An officer of the United States, with the commission of Major, with the national uniform, has been pushed from a car on…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner condemns the treatment of a black officer who was forcibly removed from a railroad car, highlighting racial injustice.
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