McDougal Littell Literature Connections: Go Tell It on the Mountain Student Editon Grade 11The story of John Grimes, a young Black man living in Harlem in the 1930s and his relationship with his strict storefront preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past. The story also follows the difficult passage of the son of a stoically courageous mother to manhood amid the family's past from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem. |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain | 3 |
The Prayers of the Saints | 69 |
The ThreshingFloor | 227 |
Copyright | |
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