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 places his father's funeral in the historical context of the Harlem race riots to show that racial prejudice in early 20th-century America
A) was taking place during his lifetime.
B) was also a cause for mourning
C) was interrupting an important family event.
D)was also coming to an end.
