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Boss

 

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Native Son

by Richard A. Wright

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for …
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A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," …
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Hard Times

by Studs Terkel

Receates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and abscure Americans.
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The Coast of Chicago

 

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The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

The uncut version of Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the shocking working conditions endured by immigrants in early twentieth-century Chicago stockyards and packinghouses.
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