Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown (Paperback)

Manchild in the Promised Land is Claude Brown's landmark autobiographical account of growing up in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Brown writes candidly about street life, reform school, family and the struggles faced by a generation of African Americans whose parents had moved north in search of a better life. First published in 1965 and still widely read, this Scribner paperback is an essential classic of American memoir and urban history.