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Chicago, where the black population had doubled in a decade, a black youth who fell asleep on a raft on Lake Michigan and drifted onto a white beach was stoned to death by a white crowd, provoking two weeks of bitter rioting in which thirty-eight people were killed and whole neighborhoods razed.
Bill Bryson • One Summer
myth of American exceptionalism
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
he as an individual can live in dignity, even though he as a Negro cannot.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
inert.
Lisa Taddeo • Animal: A Novel
She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.