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Synopsis
Northern-educated physician Kenneth Harper moves back to his hometown in Georgia with a relatively modest goal: he wants to start his own medical practice. He hopes that racist prejudices have relaxed enough to allow room for someone like him, but the local presence of the Ku Klux Klan offers some sense of how little the community has actually changed. In response to that reality, Harper seeks to liberate local sharecroppers from white landowners via a cooperative society―but that’s something the area’s ruling class simply cannot abide.
Hailed by the Washington Post as one of twelve novels that “changed the way we live,” Walter Francis White’s 1924 debut “not only sparked national outrage against racial violence…it made White a literary celebrity and electrified his advocacy for anti-lynching legislation.” It remains a touchstone document from the early Harlem Renaissance.
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About the Author
Walter Francis White (1893–1955) was an essayist, journalist, novelist, civil rights activist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to parents of African and European ancestry. After graduating from Atlanta University, White joined the NAACP, then used his light skin to work undercover for the organization, investigating and exposing mob violence and lynchings in the South. He would eventually serve as leader of the NAACP for four decades. Throughout his career as both a journalist and a novelist, White fought against racial injustice in America. His notable works include the groundbreaking debut novel The Fire in the Flint, Flight, three works of nonfiction, and the autobiography A Man Called White.
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- PublisherAmazonClassics
- Publication date2021
- ISBN 10 1542032261
- ISBN 13 9781542032261
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages235
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