Brown wrote of black urban life

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: February 7, 2002 | Copyright information

Associated Press

Thursday, February 7, 2002

New York -- Claude Brown, whose 1965 book "Manchild in the Promised Land" exposed mainstream audiences to the raw violence that engulfed the poor children of Harlem, died Saturday from a lung condition. He was 64.

Published at the height of the civil rights movement, "Manchild in the Promised Land" quickly became a bestseller. Although not published as a memoir, the tale of a boyhood spent among killers, drug addicts and prostitutes closely paralleled Brown's life.

Its publication instantly put Brown in a class with ...

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