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The Fire in the Flint

Walter White

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 183 pages

The Fire in the Flint is a 1924 novel by Walter White, an early twentieth-century African American writer and civil rights leader. It follows a young Black physician, Kenneth Harper, who returns to the Jim Crow South to practice medicine and confronts racial violence and injustice. Its historical portrait of a community under pressure makes it worth listening to.

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“The fire in the flint never shows until it is struck.”
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Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph

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