Who Speaks for the Negro? / Robert Penn Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Robert Penn, Author.

Contributor:

Blight, David W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees included well-known figures such as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser-known individuals whose names might otherwise be lost to history. Transcripts from these interviews, combined with Warren's reflections on the movement, were first published in 1965 as Who Speaks for the Negro? This unique text in the history of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement serves as a powerful oral history of an all-important struggle. A new introduction by David W. Blight places the book in historical perspective. "Warren's book remains a luminous volume about race, racism, the South, black America, and our national destiny. We ignore or forget his work at our peril."-Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University "Not exactly a stroll down memory lane and certainly not a song to sing, yet WhoSpeaks for the Negro? brings back a question one would have thought already answered. We still search America's soul for how to and who to include. This is still a book worthy of your time and somehow still a part of ours."-Nikki Giovanni "Fifty years later, we have this archival treasure that demonstrates why the Civil Rights Movement in fact gave our land its second equality, life, and liberty movement."-Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on the Digital Archive

Introduction

Foreword

1. The Cleft Stick

2. A Mississippi Journal

3. The Big Brass

4. Leadership from the Periphery

5. The Young

6. Conversation Piece

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 New York : Random House, [1965] (454 pages ; 22 cm) Call number of original: E185.61.W22

ISBN:

9780300211948

0300211945

OCLC:

890403813