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Here is one more passage from Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

I don't remember much of the trip, but after we reached the segregated part of the journey, things must have looked up. Negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for "the poor little motherless darlings" and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.

Why did things start to "look up" after the children reached the segregated part of their journey?
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