Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) was bom 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. "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. 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.
Freedom rides. O'Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge" concerns an interracial encounter on a city bus. The modem era of civil rights history in the United States is often referred to as beginning on December 1, 1955. On that day, an African American department store saleswoman in Montgomery, Alabama, was told to give up her seat on a bus to a white personas was customary at the time-but she refused to do so. The woman, Rosa Parks, was sent to jail for her obstinacy and her act in essence launched the civil rights movement into the modem age.
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