Tucker Caliban is the quiet, determined descendant of an African chief brought to America in chains. In his tiny, backwater Southern town, Tucker suddenly salts his fields, burns down his house, kills his livestock, and takes his wife and child off to parts unknown, precipitating a mass exodus of the state's entire Black population.
In this 1967 satire of white society by a black writer, Mitchell Pierce is a white New York ad executive whose wife gives birth to twins: one is black, one is white.
Ludlow Washington has been blind from childhood. Growing up in a state home, he learns the piano and then the horn. His talent saves him from a life of poverty and thrusts him into limelight at Harlem nightclubs, where the hardness of his life as a blind man, and as a black man, enriches his musical gifts. There, Ludlow Washington becomes a ...
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