Read the excerpt from my story. 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.

Read the excerpt from loom and spindle. but in a short time the prejudice against factory labor wore away, and the lowell mills became filled with blooming and energetic new england women. . they soon began to associate with those who formed the community in which they had come to live, and were invited to their houses. they went to the same church, and sometimes married into some of the best families. or if they returned to their secluded homes again, instead of being looked down upon as "factory girls" by the squire's or the lawyer's family, they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them. what inference can be drawn about the time period of the excerpt? a. the changing workforce transformed society’s rules. b. factories improved local economies with new products. c. women with factory experience found other jobs easily. d. married women preferred factory work to homemaking.