Black Boy
by Richard Wright
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- 9-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
- Men / Boys
Year Published 1945
Word Count 127,371
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 950L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 12777, 22 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Mississippi--Biography
- African American families--Mississippi
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Black boy
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Mississippi
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- African Americans--Mississippi--Social life and customs
- African American authors--Biography
- Mississippi--Social conditions
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Childhood and youth
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Homes and haunts--Mississippi
- African Americans--Mississippi--Biography
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- ELA Text Exemplars, 11-12
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