TRUMBULL PARK

by Frank London Brown ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Based closely on the vicious near race riots that happened at a Chicago housing development in 1954 when Negro families moved in, this is the fictionalized story of those families and in particular that of Buggy Martin, his wife and child. Believing that what was occurring in Trumbull Park was preferable to the rats, broken windows, TB and fatal accidents typical of life in a Black Belt tenement, Buggy and his family subjected themselves to bombing, filthy epithets, callous police protection and a growing sense of degradation. How the Martin and their Negro neighbors found within themselves the power to conquer their fears and demand their legal rights as citizens and human beings makes a timely book. Like many novels by Negro writers this is more a sociological study than an exercise of the novel's art--detailed, overly long, lacking in narrative strength--but effective on its own terms.

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ISBN: 155553628X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Regnery

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: FICTION