Riot
by Myers, Walter Dean · 2009
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Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
Topics
Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863Juvenile fictionFictionRace relationsMultiracial peopleRiotsAfrican AmericansIrish AmericansNew York (N.Y.)HistoryCivil War, 1861-1865
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