Richard Wright and the library card

About this book

Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.

Subjects

  • adaptations
  • african american authors
  • african americans
  • african americans and libraries
  • african americans, fiction
  • afronorteamericanos
  • bibliotecas
  • black boy (wright, richard)
  • books and reading
  • books and reading, fiction
  • books & libraries
  • children's fiction
  • discrimination in education
  • ficción juvenil
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile nonfiction
  • libraries
  • libraries, fiction
  • libros y lectura
  • literature
  • prejudice & racism
  • segregation
  • social topics
  • spanish language materials