Here it was, half a century after the first segregation law, and there were 50,000 african americans in montgomery. more of us rode the buses than caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. it was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people. the first-person narration in this excerpt best readers understand facts about bus ridership. the anger black people felt. why segregation started. statistics about montgomery.

the anger black people felt.

Explanation:

The first-person point of view is a literary device that allows readers understand the narrator's feelings, motives and drives, so that they see the story through the narrator's eyes.

In "My Story", the author Rosa Parks expresses her feelings of indignation at the fact that black people were subjected to white people. Therein, she mentions that more black people take the bus as a means of transport to commute and work for white people as well.

yes

explanation:

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.