Asked by bill

Read and reread the excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved.

A strike fund would have to be raised, an information bureau set up where strikers could register for relief, or for help with legal and personal problems. Publicity was another vital need — photos and eyewitness accounts of workers on the picket lines being harassed by gorillas and police. The picket lines themselves would have to be organized.

Why was publicity a vital need for the strikers?

They needed help paying their bills while not working.
They needed to register for legal and personal information.
They needed the nation to hear and see their story.
They needed their picket lines to be organized.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
They needed the nation to hear and see their story.

Publicity—photos and eyewitness accounts of harassment—was needed to draw public attention and sympathy to the strikers' situation.