Black, White, Colored Urban Fiction and Venezuela

and Venezuela

Printz Award recipient

he learned instead to care about the gold around his neck and the number of bills in his wallet

the United States was both an opportunity and a struggle

And at the center of this tumult is Destiny

Black, White, Colored Urban Fiction and VenezuelaAn absorbing investigation into a little known historical tragedyan insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century which upended post Reconstruction gains made by Black residents in a small North Carolina town. In the late nineteenth century, Laurinburg, North Carolina, was a beacon of racial calma place where Blacks and Whites could live and work together. Black families like the Malloys became landlords, businessmen, and doctors. But that