Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful

and coherent paragraph.

A. The first time that I was seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood and

could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was

always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

B. One Sunday, we went to church in Simsbury, and we were the only Negroes there and on Sunday mornings I was the religious

leader and spoke on any text I wanted to 107 boys.

C. Just before going to college I went to Simsbury, Connecticut, and worked for a whole summer on a tobacco farm to earn a

little school money to supplement what my parents were doing.

D. After that summer in Connecticut, it was a bitter feeling going back to segregation and it was hard to understand why I could

ride wherever I pleased on the train from New York to Washington and then had to change to a Jim Crow car at the nation’s

capital in order to continue the trip to Atlanta.