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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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influential

Explanation: In this context "powerful" describes the union's strength in influence and effect (political/economic/social), not physical or loud qualities.