Choose the statement below that BEST states the central idea of the text the most daring of our leaders A: The lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s were the most effective form of protest to end segregation in the south.

B: Duane Nash didn’t understand why segregation was still allowed in the South Since it did not exist where she grew up in Chicago.

C: Diane Nash, a college student at Fisk University, became a civil rights activist in the 1960s, helping to organize nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins to help end segregation in the south.

D: The civil rights leader Diane Nash, never wanted to be an activist or a leader in the movement because she had been raised to stay in the background, like most young women of that time.

Read the passage from a raisin in the sun. mama: lord have mercy, baby. you done gone and bought your grandmother a hat? travis (very proud): open it! she does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it. ruth: travis, honey, what is that? travis (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): it's a gardening hat! like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens. beneatha (giggling fiercely): travis—we were trying to make mama mrs. miniver—not scarlett o'hara! mama (indignantly): what's the matter with you all! this here is a beautiful hat! (absurdly.) i always wanted me one just like it! which word or phrase from the text best supports the idea that the adults think the hat is inappropriate? “have mercy” (giggling fiercely) (indignantly) “what’s the matter”