Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Richard Wright: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth Thursday, July 16 2009.

• One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my hands over a mound of glowing coals, listening to the wind whistle past the house outside.