I've watched the trains as they disappeared behind the of stroke, Carrying the crowds of working men land of hopeWorking hard on southern And yet I'm always broke from The Land of Hope" by from Chicago Defenderc1920 The excerpt best supports which statement about African American life after Reconstruction? OVery Alnican Americans in the South were permitted to vote or hold public office Economic push factors motivated many African Americans to migrate to the North and West Crow laws forced African Americans toute separate public African Americans on churches and other institutions to maintain a of community