Read this excerpt from I Never Had It Made.Thirty-five years later, while I was lying awake nights, frustrated, unable to see a future, Mr. Rickey, by now the president of the Dodgers, was also lying awake at night, trying to make up his mind about a new experiment.He had never forgotten the agony of that black athlete. When he became a front-office executive in St. Louis, he had fought, behind the scenes, against the custom that consigned black spectators to the Jim Crow section of the Sportsman's Park, later to become Busch Memorial Stadium. His pleas to change the rules were in vain. Those in power argued that if blacks were allowed a free choice of seating, white business would suffer.Which detail best supports the central idea that many people oppose Branch Rickey’s ideas?
Answer
A
"Mr. Rickey, by now the president of the Dodgers, was also lying awake at night, trying to make up his mind about a new experiment."
B
"He had never forgotten the agony of that black athlete."
C
"[H]e had fought, behind the scenes, against the custom that consigned black spectators to the Jim Crow section of the Sportsman's Park"
D
"Those in power argued that if blacks were allowed a free choice of seating, white business would suffer."
Explanation
The detail that best shows opposition to Rickey’s ideas is that people in power argued against allowing Black spectators to choose where to sit. Their claim that white business would suffer shows they resisted changing the segregation rules. Choice C describes Rickey fighting against that custom, rather than showing others’ opposition.
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