This month's University of Chicago Press free e-book is
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt.
“If his story comes off unremarkable, that’s because he presented himself as unremarkable. Which is an odd thing to write. To say Nesbitt was ordinary is to suggest guts, humility and decency are ordinary.” —
The Chicago Tribune