Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son. A few hours after my father's funeral, while he lay in state in the undertaker's chapel, a race riot broke out in
Harlem. On the morning of the 3rd of August, we drove my father to the graveyard through a wilderness of
smashed plate glass.
Baldwin describes a personal event taking place amid a race riot to

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