Author Claude Brown wrote 'Manchild in the Promised Land,' which was published to critical acclaim in 1965. The story is about coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. Brown was born in New York City, New York on February 23, 1937. While in his youth, he turned to crime. From the age […]

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