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How does the paragraph below contribute to the development of ideas in the text?



Gilmore organized black women to sell pound cakes and sweet potato pies, fried fish and stewed greens, pork chops and rice at beauty salons, cab stands and churches. "She offered these women, many of whose grandmothers were born into slavery, a way to contribute to the cause that would not raise suspicions of white employers who might fire them from their jobs, or white landowners who might evict them from the houses they rented," Edge says.

Question 14 options:

(A) It emphasizes all the hard work that Gilmore put into helping the Civil Rights Movement


(B) It stresses how important the actions of women were during the Civil Rights Movement.


(C) It suggests that African American women contributed less to the Civil Rights Movement than men did.


(D) It explains how Gilmore was able to provide women with a safe way to contribute to the Civil Rights Movement.

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It explains how Gilmore was able to provide women with a safe way to contribute to the Civil Rights Movement

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