Colored People: A Memoir

A vivid and ribald story of the coming-of-age of a young black man in Piedmont, West Virginia. Taking place in the 1950’s and 1960’s, this account rings readers into a world of hellfire religion, licentious gossip, and a “slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.” Time magazine wrote: “A beguiling elegy for the exuberant society blacks created for themselves under the veil of segregation . . .”