Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March. Although life was better in the projects than in the tenement house, Wash began to glimpse more of the other world and realize what he was missing. "You'd walk by the Alabama Theatre, and the door would open, and you'd feel that cool air." He also noticed white people eating at the counter at J. J. Newberry's Department Store. "More than anything," he said, "I wanted a banana split behind that counter . . . But you couldn't go back there." Instead Wash and other blacks had to eat in the basement standing up.

How does this excerpt best help readers make a connection to world events?

by offering an example of racial segregation
by offering criticisms of badly kept housing
by offering details about movies Wash enjoys
by offering a glimpse of modern inventions

This excerpt best helps readers make a connection to world events:

A. by offering an example of racial segregation.

Explanation:

By Cynthia Levinson, "We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March" is a book about some of the people who took part in the march against segregation in Alabama. Between 3,000 and 4,000 children protested, and among them was Washington Booker, aka Wash.

The excerpt we are analyzing here offers clears examples of segregation. African Americans, like Wash, were not allowed in certain places. The differences were huge. Places attended by white people were better, more modern, more comfortable. African Americans were told to accept a harsher reality - such as eating in the basement standing up. But they did not, and bravely faced jail time to demand equality.

a

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