Free at Last: The Struggle for Civil Rights

Black Boy

By Richard Wright

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

The Glory Field

By Walter Dean Myers

ALA best book for young adults, This is the true story of one family, captured, shackled and brought to this country from Africa.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," before retreating amid violence and confusion. Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, James Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

Free at Last: The Struggle for Civil Rights

Black Boy

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Invisible Man