Captain Blackman

Name: Captain Blackman
Author: John A. Williams

by John A. Williams

Black soldier time-travels through American military history examining racism, war, and resistance

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John A. Williams

John A. Williams was a pioneering African American novelist who confronted American racism with moral urgency and literary craft. Night Song and The Man Who Cried I Am are among the most important Black American novels of the postwar period.

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