Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]
Ranked #40 in 15-Year-Old, Ranked #41 in 10th Grade — see more rankings.
A special 75th anniversary edition of Black Boy, Richard Wright's powerful and eloquent memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. At once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is 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... more
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... more
Rankings by Category
Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] is ranked in the following categories:
- #41 in African American
- #55 in Arkansas
- #57 in Author Biography
- #97 in Communism
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