Read the excerpt from My Story. I did not go down with the others to present that petition to the bus company and the city officials, because I didn’t feel anything could be accomplished. I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

The excerpt says, “I did not go down with the others to present that petition,” so she stayed behind instead of accompanying her friends to present it. Choice C, “She did not go with her friends to present the petition,” restates that fact. The passage does not say whether she signed the petition or what she thought her friends would do.

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