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What Was Happened as a Result of the 1906 "Brownsville

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What was happened as a result of the 1906 "Brownsville Incident"?


A) As part of the segregation that was introduced into Washington, D.C., during the Wilson administration, the Federal Government built a new community reserved for African Americans, just 5 miles from the Lincoln Memorial.
B) African Americans in Brownsville, Texas, rioted when three white soldiers killed a group of black men who were relaxing at a local tavern.
C) When a large freighter sprang a leak in New York Harbor, discharging millions of gallons of brown waste water into the bay, Gifford Pinchot and John Muir joined forces to save the wildlife of the region from extinction.
D) Theodore Roosevelt approved the dishonorable discharge of a regiment of black soldiers in Brownsville, Texas, because some members of the unit, goaded by racist taunts, had killed a local civilian.
E) When Theodore Roosevelt dined with Booker T. Washington at the White House, white Southern Democrats plastered the building with posters that called the structure "The New Brownsville of America."

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