| First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists, and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and James Baldwin. Sections from the transcripts of these interviews are combined with the author’s reflections on the interviewees and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole to create a powerful oral history of this all-important struggle. A new introduction by David W. Blight places Warren’s book in historical perspective.", In this new edition introduced by theeminent historian David Blight, Who Speaks for the Negro? reveals aprovocative admixture of history's variance. Warren's book is a burden ofthe past from which we cannot escape. Itsummons us to awaken a more vital national heartbeat of reparations foran American dilemma.",—Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University |
