#19 -

[valentina07]

Why is answer choice A right?

I had eliminated it because in the passage it mentions that the "Popular Front initially appealed to African-American communists"

[Jeff Wren]

Hi valentina,

The key word in the line that you quoted is "initially." Also note later in that sentence "because it seemed to open new strategies for blunting repression (my emphasis).

In other words, the Popular Front seemed appealing to African Americans at first, but then they lost interest as they noticed certain changes taking place.

The main discussion of the Popular Front and how it introduced factors that hampered the political appeal for African Americans is actually in fourth paragraph. This paragraph begins by stating that African American involvement in Communism declined during the Popular Front. The paragraph then lists several factors that made it less appealing to African Americans, such as a "retreat from attacks on white chauvinism" (lines 40-41) and "the party's increasing cautiousness" (line 45).