The protagonist is disillusioned when he discovers that a man named Young, who wrote a lengthy "Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Progress," was an escapee from a mental institution.  
The protagonist is disillusioned when he discovers that a man named Young, who wrote a lengthy "Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Progress," was an escapee from a mental institution.  He gets furious with a fellow orderly named Brand after the latter pretends that smelling nembutal is fatal, in the course of slitting the vocal cords of some dogs for a medical experiment.  Sol gets him to attend meetings of the John Reed Club, but after Buddy Nealson accuses him of being a Trotskyite he abandons the Communists.  Those events take place in the second section of the book, which begins when the protagonist and his Aunt Maggie arrive in Chicago in 1927, and is entitled "The Horror and the Glory."  The first part, "Southern Night," describes the author's childhood in Memphis in the era of Jim Crow laws.  FTP, name this autobiographical work by the author of Uncle Tom's Children and Native Son, Richard Wright.
The protagonist is disillusioned when he discovers that a man named Young, who wrote a lengthy "Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Progress," was an escapee from a mental institution.  
Black Boy (accept: American Hunger)