Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March. Though Connor was commissioner of public safety, blacks knew
that it wasn't their health and safety he intended to protect. And he certainly didn't put out their fires. Between the late 1940s and early 1960s, more than fifty black homes and churches in Birmingham were bombed. One neighborhood was hit so often, it was called "Dynamite Hill." No one was ever prosecuted, even when the police could identify the bombers. What is the tone of the excerpt? inquisitive sentimental apologetic scornful
In literature, the tone refers to the author's attitude towards a topic.
In the excerpt from "We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March," the author Cynthia Levinson makes use of a feeling of contempt or disdain. The reason is she describes the atrocious treatement received by black people, whose homes and churches were attacked with bombs, while there were no legal proceedings made against any of the bombers.
