Based on Chapter 4 of "Wheels of Change," the quoatation that helps develop the central idea that some people did not support the idea of women participating in cycling races is the following:
In 1896, Sporting Life applauded what the newspaper saw as the failure of a recent six-day women's bicycle race in New York City, declaring, "This ensures that the disgusting and degrading exhibition will not soon be repeated.”
The quote specifically states that some thought that women cycling was "disgusting" and "degrading." The speaker believed that due to the disaster of the six-day women's bicycle race in New York City, that women would not be cycling again anytime soon, which is how it should be.
During the depression people were unemployed some starving, uprooted from homes that had been around for generations, ghettos, millions of lives altered.
Where was the American Dread Alive and Well?
The answer is boom that’s it.
