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Which of the following ideas is supported in the text?

For African Americans to gain equality, they should support segregation.

For African Americans to gain equality, they must refuse to be treated a
inferior.
the text:
For African Americans to gain equality, they should apologize when insulted.
We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults.

—W. E. B. Du Bois

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Answer:

For African Americans to gain equality, they must refuse to be treated a

inferior.

Step-by-step explanation:

Du Bois says there, "We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority". Using background knowledge as well, Bill Du Bois was an African American scholar known for helping to found the NAACP and for his activism for gaining equality.

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