The Fire in the Flint

Walter White

Foreword by R. Baxter Miller

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Pages: 312

Trim size: 5.500in x 8.000in

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Paperback

Pub Date: 01/01/1996

ISBN: 9-780-8203-1742-7

List Price: $34.95

The Fire in the Flint

Walter White

Foreword by R. Baxter Miller

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Written by a lifelong champion of civil rights, this is the story of Kenneth Harper, a young black physician who, after having studied in the North in the early part of the twentieth century and believing the days of oppression for blacks in the South were waning, returns to his hometown of Central City in South Georgia to practice medicine. Harper finds all too soon that the roots of intolerance grow deep. As he becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which the black community remains enslaved, Harper helps local sharecroppers organize a cooperative society to share in the economic freedom traditionally reserved for white landowners. The Ku Klux Klan is quickly rallied into action, and Harper finds himself in a violent and vengeful battle with the Klan. Amid the story's tragedy and violence, White reflects the complex nuances of humanity within white and black communities in conflict.

White has poured all that he knows, all that he has observed in years, all that he has dreamed and all that he has experienced, interpreting everything with his own passion and leaving art to take care of itself. The result is a stirring novel, beautifully and passionately written.

The Nation

About the Author/Editor

WALTER WHITE (1893?-1955) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. A significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance, he is the author of several books, including The Fire in the Flint, Flight, and Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch.