The Street Cover:Paperback and she’s going to sleuth

and she’s going to sleuth one out

Partner of Bayard RustinBayard Rustin was a troublemaker

Messy hair

published in 1915

The Street Cover:Paperback and she’s going to sleuthWith a new introduction from New York Times best selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork. The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Lutie is confronted by racism, sexism, and classism