Noble Street Author:John Cooper Noble Street is a story about a boy's struggle growing up poor and black in Philadelphia during the 1940s. It gives the reader an honest look into the lifestyle and the community of the Cooper family, the good, the bad, the ugly. It is a tale of how a mother on welfare with twelve children, a brutal husband, inspired her sons to do battle... more » with poverty, hunger and racism. And, in doing so, she taught them a great lesson. It is the struggle to survive that gives life meaning.« less