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Why Did a Race Riot Erupt in Atlanta,Georgia,in 1906

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Why did a race riot erupt in Atlanta,Georgia,in 1906?


A) Republican candidates made speeches that stirred up racial animosity.
B) White people had been excluding blacks from coming into the city.
C) Blacks attacked a white policeman.
D) The Atlanta newspapers ran inflammatory, often exaggerated or false accounts about black crime and black men who brutalized white women.

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