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(0)Richard Wright
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper & brothers
Pub. Date
[1945]
Physical Desc
xvi, 425 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. 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.' Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for 'obscenity' and 'instigating hatred between...
