25 points Which two selections taken together BEST explain the causes of the
Freedom Day boycott? *
A. Benjamin Willis was in charge of Chicago's public schools at the time. He refused to
treat segregation as a real problem.
B. As a result of these shifts, African-Americans were packed in neighborhoods with
overcrowded and run-down schools. White neighborhoods, by contrast, had well-kept,
orderly schools.
C. As they prepared, they got encouragement from Martin Luther King, Jr., who had
spoken at the March on Washington a few months before.
D. The situation became worse each year. "The broken windows were there," one teacher
at DuSable High School wrote in the early 1970s, along with the torn window shades
and broken desk tops" and 'the badly lighted, worn central hallway."