The Example of Segregated Streetcars in the Southern United States

question 251

Multiple Choice

The example of segregated streetcars in the southern United States in the early twentieth century is one example of

• A)racial discrimination by firms, despite government efforts to halt it.
• B)racial discrimination by firms with no government action either to halt it or to support it.
• C)government-mandated racial discrimination.
• D)a failure to find any discrimination where most would expect to find it.

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