The speech below was given by Charles Sumner, a Radical Republican, in the
Senate in February 1870.
Nearly a generation has intervened since I insisted that ... all must be
equal before the law without any distinction of color.
Based on the speech, with which statement would Sumner have agreed?
A. African Americans were entitled to full civil and political rights in the South.
B. African Americans could not be given voting rights until they were educated.
C. African Americans should not be given full rights because this would result in
further conflict.
D. Former Confederates should be given full voting rights because they were
social and political leaders.