Select the correct answer.
What is the author's main purpose in writing this text?
A.
COB.
D.
to highlight Mabel Ping-Hua Lee's accomplishments and provide information about the role of Chinese
women in the suffrage movement
to describe Pearl Mark Loo's harrowing tale about being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization
Service
to summarize the meeting between white and Chinese women that took place before the 1912 suffragist
parade in New York
to explain what led Congress to pass the 1882 Exclusion Act which prohibited Chinese people from
becoming naturalized citizens