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"Jim Crow thrived because . . . reformers who had earlier fought for the cause of civil rights abandoned it for the sake of forging a reunion between the states and the federal government and between the North and the South . . . [T]his was . . . an abdication of struggle, and abandonment of justice."

"If the railroad served as the symbol of progress in the nineteenth century, the automobile served as its symbol in the twentieth, a consumer commodity that celebrated individualism and choice. Announced Ford: 'Machinery is the new Messiah.'"