The Last Train North by Taulbert, Clifton L

Good.. Hardcover. 1992 hardcover with dustjacket. Very clean; average wear. Language: English. 'Rendering his rites of passage as a rural, Southern, black man-child caught in social upheaval, Taulbert continues the autobiography begun in Once upon a Time When We Were Colored. In the same bittersweet tone, his cultural chronicle takes a 17-year-old from the Mississippi Delta in 1963 to St. Louis, where he dreams of a fully integrated environment and future. JFK's assassination, an escalating war in Vietnam, and unrest on America's campuses and streets fill Taulbert's changing world. But his writing focuses on self-identity and affirmation rooted in a network of family and friends in countryside and city; his memories flow with the steady strength and resilience of black kinship in an ageless community of values and vision.'--Thomas J. Davis, Library Journal, 1992.