Read the excerpt from "Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: How Chinese-American Women Helped Shape the Suffrage Movement" by Cathleen D. Cahill:

"Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was a feminist pioneer. She was the first Chinese woman in the United States to earn her doctorate and an advocate for the rights of women and the Chinese community in America. However, due to discriminatory immigration laws, she was unable to become a citizen of the United States. Despite this injustice, she played an important part in the fight for voting rights both in the United States and in China. In 1912, suffrage leaders in New York invited teen-year-old Mabel to ride in the honor guard that would lead their massive suffrage parade up Fifth Avenue. Mabel Lee was one of the very few Chinese women who lived in the United States in the early twentieth century. This was because Congress had passed harsh laws aimed at keeping Chinese immigrants out of the United States. In the mid-nineteenth century, men from China came to work in the mines and to build railroads."

Select the correct answer.

What is the author's main purpose in writing this text?

A. to describe Pearl Mark Loo's harrowing tale about being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service
B. to explain what led Congress to pass the 1882 Exclusion Act, which prohibited Chinese people from becoming naturalized citizens
C. to highlight Mabel Ping-Hua Lee's accomplishments and provide information about the role of Chinese women in the suffrage movement
D. to summarize the meeting between white and Chinese women that took place before the 1912 suffragist parade in New York