# Colored People

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- Book: [Colored People](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-louis-gates-jr/colored-people) ([Colored People.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-louis-gates-jr/colored-people.md))
- Authors: [Henry Louis Gates Jr](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-louis-gates-jr)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-919-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1995-04-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the...