Claude Brown

ForewordI WANT to talk about the first Northern urtan genionof , Negroes. I want to talk aboutof a misplaced people in an ^tremely complex, [Society. This is a stojr of tljeir se^mm, itheir dreams, rro'^ their si^l and fuiSe' rebellioiS,'^ their end-^tue to i'^ataish their own place in America's...

GUMPTION By Langston Hughes You young folks don't remember the Depression, but I do. No jobs for nobody. That winter there wasn't a soul working in our house but my wife, and she was evil as she could be! She was doing a few washings now and then for the white folks, so we made out. But she...