Sentences with phrase «racial violence erupts»

In this masterfully performed audiobook, Turpin narrates from the point of view of 16 - year - old Starr Carter, caught between her black neighborhood and white private school when racial violence erupts.

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It was a time when the civil rights movement was cresting, when racial violence in the South and in the northern cities was beginning to erupt, when sit - ins and freedom marches were headline events and when We Shall Overcome was almost as familiar a song as any performed by Elvis Presley.
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