Explain dorothy’s reaction to seeing the picture of “eleven well-dressed
negro women” in light of the political climate of the 1940’s? why does she respond the
way she does?

Most children brought up in brooklyn before the first world war remember day there with a peculiartenderness. it was the day children went around "ragamuffin" or "slamming gates," wearing costumes topped off by apenny maskbased on this excerpt, what is the author's purpose in writing?