Read this excerpt from James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son".

On the 29th of July, in 1943, my father died. On the same day, a few hours later, his last child was born. Over a month before this, while all our energies were concentrated in waiting for these events, there had been , in Detroit, one of the bloodiest race riots of the century. 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.

A.It reveals that death of Baldwin's father was a major news story at the time.
B. It links personal and national events to show the destructiveness of hatred.
C. It juxtaposes two opposing events; the death of his father and birth of his sister.
D. It uses time order words and phrases to order the sequence of ideas.