Analysis Of Chapter 5 Of Bad Boy By Walter Dean Myers

In chapter 5 of the book Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers talks about how the summer of 47 was one of eager anticipation for black people across the country. The New York Amsterdam News, his local weekly Negro newspaper. It suggested that the U.S. was now going to treat Negros as equals for the FIRST time. This also was the summer when he could meet his father George Myers. He was a smallish browned skinned man who wore thick glasses Walter describes him as. During that time he also tried to hang a kid named Richard Aisles, because of something they read in the Amsterdam News. The school magazine used one of his poems it was called “My Mother.”
Harlem was and is an experience that will always live with Walter. Black businessmen walked side by side