Youngblood
"Published originally on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision of 1954,Youngbloodmarked the beginning of a new era in African American literature, for it broke starkly with the Wright school and opened a path for those novelists, poets, and playwrights who comprised the Neo-Black Arts Movement—a movement that recognized John Oliver Killens as its spiritual father."--Toni Cade Bambara