
Black Boy
Richard Wright (1945)
“The autobiography that turned a Black childhood in the Jim Crow South into the most unsparing account of what it means to grow up knowing that the world was designed to destroy you.”
EraModernist
Pages419
Difficulty★★★☆☆ Challenging
AP Appearances6
Major Themes
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