Which sentence in the article BEST supports the inference that racial discrimination against African Americans was legal in
some parts of the U.S.?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
At the turn of the 20th century, more than 90 percent of Black Americans lived in the South, where they
endured violence and racial segregation.
African Americans had hoped to be free of the racial discrimination they had endured in the South.
But racist attitudes supported by Jim Crow laws resulted in outbreaks of violence.
Other priorities for African Americans were gaining legal protection and ending lynching.