Then Like the Blind Man: Award-Winning Novel Depicts 1950s Southern Boy's Radically Shifting Racial Prejudices - Hailed "Destined to Be a Classic" by Critics
While fiction about the 1950s Civil Rights era is far from rare, few capture the period and struggles from the perspective of a white child. In 'Then Like The Blind Man: Orbie's Story', Freddie Owens depicts the coming-of-age of one nine-year-old protagonist whose story transcends fiction to capture the shifting racial prejudices that turned would-be racists into a generation that embraced racial equality.
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