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Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing. Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi , Arkansas and Tennessee , and his eventual move to Chicago , where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party .
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James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.
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James Smith (November 26, 1737 – April 11, 1813 [1]) was a frontiersman, farmer and soldier in British North America.In 1765, he led the "Black Boys", a group of Pennsylvania men, in a nine-month rebellion against British rule ten years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
12-year-old Jordan Banks is a black boy who lives in Washington Heights.Jordan loves art and makes cartoons about his life. His dream is to go to art school. However, his mother makes him go to Riverdale Academy Day (RAD) School, which she calls "one of the best schools in the state".
Black Boy is a memoir by American author Richard Wright published in 1945. Black Boy, black boy, or blackboy may also refer to: "Black Boy" (song), a 1984 song by Aboriginal Australian band Coloured Stone; Black Boy Hotel, a former hotel in Nottingham, England; Black Boy Inn, a hotel and pub in Caernarfon, Wales
Clifford Glover was a 10-year-old African American boy who was fatally shot by Thomas Shea, an on-duty, undercover policeman, on April 28, 1973. Glover's death, and Shea's later acquittal for a murder charge, led to riots in the South Jamaica section of Queens, New York.