Draft:Growing Up in the Black Belt

Growing Up in the Black Belt; Negro Youth in the Rural South is a book by Charles S. Johnson. It was prepared for the American Youth Commission in Aashington D.C. and published in 1942. A study, it examined the ambitions and preparedness of African American youth in the rural south.

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Johnson lakes the case in the book that the United States does not have a caste system.