Black Boy

  • Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
    By Richard Wright

    Traces the author's coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood.

  • Black Boy
    By Richard Wright

    Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South.

  • Black Boy: Richard Wright
    By Richard Wright

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  • Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
    By Richard Wright

    Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South.

  • Black Boy
    By Richard Wright

    Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” ...

  • Black Boy
    By Richard Wright

    Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South.

  • Black Boy
    By Facts On File, Incorporated

    Under a persistent barrage of questions concerning black life, answers escaped her lips that merely confirmed the boy's sense of embattlement in a world of naked terror; first, for example, explaining that a white man did not whip a ...

  • Black Boy
    By Richard Wright

    A chronicle of coming of age under the racial prejudices of the American south, as much the story of a writer finding his voice, Black Boy remains one of the great, impassioned memoirs of the twentieth century.

  • Black Boy
    By Richard Wright

    Richard Wright describes what it was like growing up in Jim Crow-era Mississippi.