Lysistrata
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Wright's unforgettable and eloquent autobiography of growing up in the Jim Crow South offers an unsurpassed portrait of the struggles against the ingrained racism and poverty faced by African Americans.

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This is not a fast-paced book, but it's a very real and very poignant non-fiction account of a black man's life after the abolition of slavery but before the Civil Rights Act.


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