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Black Boy
- Form
- Form Autobiography
- Year
- Year 1945
- Pages
- Pages 420
A Black boy grows up hungry and beaten in the Jim Crow South, learning that one wrong word to a white man can be fatal, and claws toward reading and writing as his one door out. He boards a train north toward a freedom he has to invent.
Hunger stole upon me so slowly that at first I was not aware of what hunger really meant.
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