A. Centennial Reflection by Michelle Duster (excerpt)

(1) During my lifetime Black people were deeply entrenched in the struggle for voting rights. As a child of the ife0s I heard a Constant emphasis on how important it was to vote. To make our voices heard. I went with my parents to polling places when they voted, where I was surrounded by adults who grew up in the Jim Crow(1). South and knew that voting was not something to take for granted. At my predominantly Black elementary school on the South Side of Chicago we took part in mock elections. To this day, most African Americans are frequently reminded about how "people died for you to have this right" when referring to the racial violence experienced in the movement - experienced by both women and men. But. I rarely hear the same emphasis expressed in recounting their singular gender-based struggles that were also faced in order to gain those rights.
(2) The messaging that I grew up hearing illustrates the dual fight that most women of color laced in the suffrages movement. Yes, they were fighting for their rights as women, but were also fighting against oppression from a Euro-focused social structure whero many times: white women were not on their sides. Given a choice of locus, miny women of oilar lived through and were taught that the fight for racial equality was the priority and gaining the right to vote was a tool that could affect change in oppressive laws that relegated them to second-class citizenship.
(3) My childhood was full of discussions about social issues, racial struggles, and the historical realities of oppression and inequality. The adults in my world weste educated and politically astute and I always knew that Ida B. Wells was my father's

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Read the excerpt from paragraph 3 .
"My childhood was full of discussions about social issues, racial struggles, and the historical realities of oppression and inequality."

Which evidence from the passage best supports this statement?

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A. Centennial Reflection by Michelle Duster (excerpt)
 
(1) During my lifetime Black people were deeply entrenched in the struggle for voting rights. As a child of the ife0s I heard a Constant emphasis on how important it was to vote. To make our voices heard. I went with my parents to polling places when they voted, where I was surrounded by adults who grew up in the Jim Crow(1). South and knew that voting was not something to take for granted. At my predominantly Black elementary school on the South Side of Chicago we took part in mock elections. To this day, most African Americans are frequently reminded about how "people died for you to have this right" when referring to the racial violence experienced in the movement - experienced by both women and men. But. I rarely hear the same emphasis expressed in recounting their singular gender-based struggles that were also faced in order to gain those rights.
(2) The messaging that I grew up hearing illustrates the dual fight that most women of color laced in the suffrages movement. Yes, they were fighting for their rights as women, but were also fighting against oppression from a Euro-focused social structure whero many times: white women were not on their sides. Given a choice of locus, miny women of oilar lived through and were taught that the fight for racial equality was the priority and gaining the right to vote was a tool that could affect change in oppressive laws that relegated them to second-class citizenship.
(3) My childhood was full of discussions about social issues, racial struggles, and the historical realities of oppression and inequality. The adults in my world weste educated and politically astute and I always knew that Ida B. Wells was my father's
 

Select the correct text in the passage.
Read the excerpt from paragraph 3 .
"My childhood was full of discussions about social issues, racial struggles, and the historical realities of oppression and inequality."
 
Which evidence from the passage best supports this statement?

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