Manchild in the promised land

Claude Brown First published 1937

About this book

The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.

Subjects

  • african american boys
  • african american neighborhoods
  • african americans
  • african americans, biography
  • african americans, new york (state), new york
  • african americans, social conditions
  • alcoholics, biography
  • biography
  • brown, claude, 1937-2002
  • drug addicts
  • harlem (new york, n.y.)
  • harlem (new york, n.y.), social conditions
  • new york (n.y.), biography
  • social conditions