Read the excerpt from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.

Rosa received her diploma when she was twenty years old, becoming one of a small number of black high school graduates in the city at that time.

"But that still didn’t help me much in getting a job,” she remembered. "I had a high school diploma, but I could only get jobs that didn’t need a diploma.” She worked in a shirt factory, as a helper in a hospital, and at a number of other menial jobs before being hired by the Montgomery Fair department store, where she altered ready-to-wear clothing.

How do key details in this excerpt develop the central idea that the employment laws in Montgomery were unfair?

They point out that it took Rosa Parks a long time to find a job that she enjoyed doing.
They suggest that Rosa Parks was not able to stay at one job for a long period of time.
They show that Black people were not hired for jobs that matched their education.
They emphasize that only a few Black people in the city were high school graduates.

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The key details in this excerpt develop the central idea that the employment laws in Montgomery were unfair as they showed that Black people were not hired for jobs that matched their education.

Rosa Parks got her school diploma but she still did not get job because she was black. The laws of the city were quite unfair as seen in the case of Rosa. The central idea of "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman was that racism prevailed in the city to the extent that black people did not even used to get jobs that they deserved. She had to do clerical work.

Thus, the correct option is C.

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