English, 02.12.2019 06:31, nevelle

Read the excerpt from "finding unity in the alabama coal mines.”

nevertheless, the umwa was able to bridge the racial divide in that state, forming a powerful interracial labor union fifty years before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s would make racial integration the rule of the land.

what is the connotation of the word powerful?

muscular
loud
energetic
influential

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Read the excerpt from "finding unity in the alabama coal mines.”

nevertheless, the umwa...