“I felt like a dog,” she wrote later. “And I got mad, after this was over, and I realized I was a human being, and just as intelligent and far more trained than that bus driver was. But I think he wanted to hurt me, and he did. . . . I cried all the way to Cleveland.”
–Freedom Walkers,
Russell Freedman
In this excerpt, Jo Ann Robinson remembers when she was forced off the city bus because of segregation.
Which key details develop the central idea that segregation was a harmful experience? There are three correct answers.
“I felt like a dog.”
“I realized I was a human being.”
“just as intelligent and far more trained than that bus driver was”
“He wanted to hurt me, and he did.”
“I cried all the way to Cleveland.”