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Softcover. Condition: Good. Anniversary. Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. 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. Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American. From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for obscenity and instigating hatred between the races.The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a drunkard, hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."

Softcover. Condition: New. Anniversary. Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. 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. Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American. From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for obscenity and instigating hatred between the races.The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a drunkard, hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."

Condition: new.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Glance at the Institution for the Propagation of the faith Keating's and Brown1838 52pp;The prophecy of Orval containing a Prediction of all the Remarkable Events James Burns 1848 16pp; A Few Words of Affection and Congratulation to Fellow Converts Burns & Lambert 1851 11pp; Moore: Drunkenness and Its Effects Catholic Temperance Confraternity 15pp; John Moore: Substance of an Address Proposing the Formation of a Catholic Temperance Society 1840 16pp; Thomas Tempest: Sermon Laying the First Stone of a Catholic Chapel at Melton Mowbray 1839 21 ixpp;The Christian's Directory or Sentiments of Christian Piety 35pp; M. Frayssinous: Maxims of the Catholic Church Respecting the Salvation of Man T. Jones 1839 31pp; Anon. General Observations on the Religious State 11pp; Maxims and Spiritual Counsels of Saint Teresa 1819 31pp; The Calling of St Peter as An Apostle Dublin: Goodwin 1825 12pp; Henry Rutter: A Summary View of the State of Mankind Newcastle 1821 59pp; P. A. Baines: A Letter Addressed to Sir Charles Wolseley Bart. on the lent Pastoral of 1840 19pp; 13 bound catholic tracts, some provincial, from 1819-1840, few with creases, gift inscriptions some spotted, good.