The way Mrs. Merganser has been treated in the past (pages 94–95).

The way the police treat the suffragists is as though they are not as intelligent as men. On page 108, one of them says to Miss Dexter, “Try to get this through that female wool you call a brain.” 

They also say on page 109 that women shouldn’t be given the right to vote. Miss Kelley also tells Violet how wrong it is that Myrtle was made to move to the Jim Crow car.

On pages 151–152, the desk clerk at the hotel Chloe is staying at looks at Myrtle and tells Chloe and Mr. Martin that Myrtle isn’t allowed in the hotel. He also tells them they will be unlikely to find another hotel in Nashville at which Myrtle can stay. The way he speaks about her is horrible. He does this because she is African American and there were segregation laws in the South at the time. 

On page 154, when Mr. Martin and Myrtle try to get food, one boy calls the police when they go and sit at the counter. Another tells Mr. Martin he can serve Myrtle in the alley, but not at the counter. They end up eating in an alley because they can’t eat anywhere else because Myrtle is African American and segregation laws and opinions at that time prevented her from eating in places where white people ate.