American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1509 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Go Tell It on the Mountain* and *The Fire Next Time*
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The idea
His first novel of nineteen fifty-three follows a fourteen-year-old boy seeking self-knowledge and faith in a storefront church, and the witness calls it his best known. The Fire Next Time, of nineteen sixty-three, argued for an end to separation between the races and made him internationally famous.
In practice
A storefront church, then a public argument.
Where people slip
The novel is closely autobiographical.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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