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The children of these disillusioned colored pioneers inherited the total lot of their parents—the disappointments, the anger. To add to their misery, they had little hope of deliverance. For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

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Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

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Claude Brown

Claude Brown

Born: February 23, 1937
Died: February 2, 2002 (aged 64)
Bio: Claude Brown is the author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published Children of Ham.
Known for:
  1. Manchild in the Promised Land (1965)
  2. Stonewall Speaks
  3. Confederate Devil John
  4. The children of Ham (1976)

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