Riot

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.

subjects: Irish Americans,  Race relations,  Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863,  Racially mixed people,  Motion picture plays,  Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Riots,  African Americans,  History,  Children's fiction,  Race relations, fiction,  Racially mixed people, fiction,  Riots, fiction,  Irish americans, fiction,  New york (n.y.), history, fiction,  African americans, fiction

Places: New York (N.Y.)

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865