Special collections visit

I visited special collections library looking for something or a book with book with black people, I was given this book by the librarian because he thought this is one of the the first books that viewed/represented  black people as human beings rather caricatures from Jim Crows idealism of ‘black folk’, this book was published in 1962
Even for me this book humanised black people but the author of this book was criticised for not being being black and his lack of understanding of black people, because the his portrayal was off the scale, and did not represent black people in America in the early 60s, it was  the around of The Civil Rights Movement. This book resonated with me because it showed people of my colour looking ‘normal’ and doing normal things (which we do).