Lysistrata

Amazing (if I can say that about a topic like this) autobiographical book about the brutality of the South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a black boy. Maybe a little slow in the beginning but it's a great witness of what it was like being an African American in the American Deep South in the early 1900's. Slavery had been abolished of course, but the South's white supremacists were having none of that, Jim Crow laws made sure that the blacks were treated as second class citizens.