Part a: which statement expresses the central idea of the text?

a
johnson, jackson, and vaughan challenged prejudice at naca to accomplish what african american women had never been allowed or expected to do before.
b
while all naca “computers” advance women and african american rights, johnson was responsible for grabbing the nation’s attention.
c
the public wasn’t aware of african american women’s role in naca until recently because the organization kept their involvement a secret.
d
johnson, jackson, and vaughan would have gone on to accomplish great things at naca if it weren’t for the discrimination they faced because of their gender and race.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination