The Walls Of Jericho

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? When Fred Merrit, a wealthy and light-skinned black lawyer, decides to move into an exclusively white neighborhood in Manhattan, he hires three of the toughest movers in Harlem, Joshua "Shine" Jones, Jinx Jenkins, and Bubber Brown, to bring his possessions safely into his new home. Under the surface, all is not well. Fred Merrit's new neighbors, like the haughty Miss Agatha Cramp, resent his intrusion into their neighborhood, while the working-class "rats" of the Harlem community resent the cultural mores of professional "dickties" like Fred Merrit. These confrontations all come to the fore in The Walls of Jericho , a comedy of manners depicting everyday life during the Harlem Renaissance. Rudolph Fisher (died 1934) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Walls Of Jericho exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.