Pecan Perception: Little Black Boy

This story is about a young black boy's perception of life in Memphis, Tennessee during the late forties and early fifties. Emphasis is on the absence of his father and mother and centers on his grandfather's control of him and the surplus of his grandmother's clout. He lives with his father's parents and presumes his parents have forsaken him. Old people influence his every move and he needs friends his age. Children his age do not like him because he acts like old people. Extreme experien...