Read the excerpt from My Story.More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people.

The excerpt connects a cause to its effect: more white people could afford cars, so fewer of them rode the bus. As a result, more Black people rode the buses than Caucasians did. This makes the passage’s structure cause and effect.

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