![]() The modern era of civil rights history in the United States is often referred to as beginning on December 1, 1955. O’Connor’s “Everything that Rises Must Converge” concerns an interracial encounter on a city bus. Events in History at the Time of the Short Story Freedom rides O’Connor wrote the short story near the end of her life she had long suffered from lupus and died of kidney failure on August 3, 1964. “Everything that Rises Must Converge” dramatizes civil rights activism surrounding public transportation in the South and the strong undercurrent of violence that runs beneath race relations in the region. Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) was born in Savannah, Georgia, to a middle-class Catholic family, and devoted her literary career to portraying the culture of the South with all of its macabre social and religious tensions. The ingredients of race, class, and family history culminate in tragedy as a white woman and her son learn the hard way about the complexities of Southern society during the era of the civil rights movement.Įvents in History at the Time of the Short Story A short story set in the mid-twentieth century American South written and first published in 1961 reissued in a posthumous short story collection in 1965. ![]()
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