An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.
Allen B. Ballard is Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University at Albany-SUNY and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at City College of New York. His previously published works include two books of nonfiction, The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America and One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People; and two novels, Where I'm Bound, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and Carried by Six, winner of the "Honor Book Prize" in Afro-American Literature from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
