Pbs: The Street by Ann Petry: Black Single Mother Seeks the American Dream

In this video [3:40] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream we meet Lutie Johnson, the African-American single mother heroine of Ann Petry's novel "The Street". The video gives an introduction to the novel and Lutie's aspirations to find stability and independence in her Harlem neighborhood in the midst of race, class, and gender biases.