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An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.

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"""Breaching Jericho's Walls is a journey-through-life book that takes the reader to interesting and very different (surprisingly so) sites of memory where compelling experiences take place. I couldn't stop reading."" - Gloria Wade-Gayles, editor of My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality ""This is a rich memoir of African American middle-class life in the midcentury; it complexly considers the relationship between and amongst class aspiration, academic achievement, masculinity, and diverse African American cultural attitudes. It's immediately relevant to contemporary debates about schooling, race, and differential achievement; it is rich in detail about segregation, civil rights, and African American achievement in the arts, athletics, scholarship, and business."" - James C. Hall, author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties"

Breaching Jericho's Walls is a journey-through-life book that takes the reader to interesting and very different (surprisingly so) sites of memory where compelling experiences take place. I couldn't stop reading. - Gloria Wade-Gayles, editor of My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality This is a rich memoir of African American middle-class life in the midcentury; it complexly considers the relationship between and amongst class aspiration, academic achievement, masculinity, and diverse African American cultural attitudes. It's immediately relevant to contemporary debates about schooling, race, and differential achievement; it is rich in detail about segregation, civil rights, and African American achievement in the arts, athletics, scholarship, and business. - James C. Hall, author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties

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"Allen B. Ballard is Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University at Albany-SUNY and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at City College of New York. His previously published works include two books of nonfiction, The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America and One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People; and two novels, Where I'm Bound, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and Carried by Six, winner of the ""Honor Book Prize"" in Afro-American Literature from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association."

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