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 was taking place during his lifetime. was also a cause for mourning. was interrupting an important family event. was also coming to an end.

Add each event in the order it occurred to describe the rise of nazism. start: as required by the treaty of versailles, germany established a new democratic government called the weimer republic. however, damages from the war and reparations required by the treaty left germany's economy struggling. the president of the weimer republic appointed adolf hitler as chancellor of germany, hoping to satisfy rioting german citizens. dissatisfied germans rallied behind the nazi party and its leader, adolf hitler, who promised to make germany a strong and proud nation again. adolf hitler used his new power to dissolve germany’s democratic government and become a powerful dictator, putting germany under nazi control. german citizens, who were unemployed, starving, and living in poverty, lost faith that their new government could them.