Answer: A) an appeal to the reader's emotions.
Explanation: When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. In the given excerpt from "African American Women in World War II" we can see an example of the use of logos (an appeal to the audience's logic and reason), because the author explains with a logical argument, hypocrisy that represented maintaining the limit on African American nurses in the army.
