![]() ![]() But still, at one moment early in the book, we see the black counterpart to Long’s father, Larry Thompson, not get served in a store because he is black. ![]() This is after some key achievements made by the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act, for example, was signed into law two years before. Within its story, there is general, political context of the civil rights movement in the late 1960’s. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston’s color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.Ĭontext is very important when talking about the new edition of “The Silence of Our Friends,” it has a few contexts that are worth thinking about. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families-one white, one black-find common ground. ![]()
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