Her father not only believed that integration was inevitable, he even tried to enlist Arnetta to make it happen. In September 1957, three years after the U. S. Supreme Court ordered racial integration of public schools, ACMHR tried to recruit young people to cross the education color barrier. Several families, including the Shuttlesworths, decided to participate. Arnetta was eleven years old then, and her father wanted her and her sister Joan to integrate a white school, too. The girls panicked. "We were little chickens," Arnetta said. "We cried and thought it was so unfair. We wanted no part of it."

How does the author use third-person narration in this excerpt?

A) to criticize individuals for their resistance to integration
B) to explain the obstacles to achieving integration
C) to describe the Supreme Court’s legal intervention
D) to reveal the heroism of children who integrated schools