Rudolph Fisher

Published to critical acclaim in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the debut novel of one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher. Taking on a friend's challenge to "write [a] novel treating both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem equally," The Walls of Jericho treats readers to a tale of two Harlems. One occupied by the "dickties," well-to-do light skinned or white passing Black folk, and the other filled with...