Alienation, conflicting relationships, and animosities are dealt with in fiction on being black and a woman in America

A collection of short stories describes the experiences of being a Black woman in American society between 1860 and 1960

Gathers stories and poems by Ernest J. Gaines, Alice Walker, Charles Chesnutt, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Rudolph Fisher

Product Description: Frank London Brown’s powerful debut novel, originally published in 1959, fictionalizes the real-life ordeals of the first black families to integrate Chicago’s Trumbull Park public housing project in the 1950s. Protagonist Buggy Martin tells the first-person story of moving with his wife, Helen, and two children from a rotting tenement on the South Side to the new development, where the family is besieged by angry whites...read more