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Adult Novels Depicting the Black Experience in the Jim Crow South

  1. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  2. A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
  3. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  4. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  5. Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
  6. Sippi: A Novel by John Oliver Killens
  7. Black Boy by Richard Wright
  8. The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams
  9. Mulberry: A Novel by Paulette Boudreaux