Read the excerpts from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.
Excerpt 1
Shaken and alarmed, Robinson bolted to her feet and stumbled off the bus in tears, packages falling from her arms. She had made the mistake of sitting in one of the front ten seats, which were reserved for white riders only.
"I felt like a dog,” she wrote later. "And I got mad, after this was over, and I realized I was a human being, and just as intelligent and far more [educationally] trained then that bus driver was. But I think he wanted to hurt me, and he did. . . . I cried all the way to Cleveland.”
Excerpt 2
"I didn’t know what was happening,” she [Claudette Colvin] said later. "I was just angry. Like a teenager might be, I was downright angry. It felt like I was helpless.” She remained locked up at the city jail until she was bailed out later that day by the pastor of her church.
Which sentence best explains how these excerpts develop the central idea that the treatment of Black riders was emotionally harmful?
Both excerpts use the words of those affected to help support the idea.
Both excerpts use the evidence of eyewitnesses to demonstrate the idea.
Both excerpts show that Black people were sent to jail for sitting in the wrong seat.
Both excerpts show that bus drivers did not respect the education of Black people.