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Youngblood

novel by Killens

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In John Oliver Killens
…published the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel Youngblood, for which he is best known. The story focuses on the Youngbloods, an African American family that faces the struggle of living in the South under Jim Crow law in the first decades of the 20th century. The inspiration for the characters and their…
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Harlem Writers Guild

In Harlem Writers Guild
…group’s early years, Killens published Youngblood (1954), a novel chronicling the Youngblood family’s struggle with racism and oppression in Georgia. It was the first novel to be published by a Harlem Writers Guild member. Another early landmark publication to emerge from a member was Guy’s novel Bird at My Window…
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