San Antonio College Library

Rhythmic language of the streets, the black church and the family set in motion many of the dilemmas and contradictions of the ordinary African American in the South. Several stories are set in the 1960s. This is the Black South as lived in by the average black citizen.

Meridian Hill is a deserted teenage mother who volunteers to help in the local civil rights movement.

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the pan-African movement. DuBois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction...