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In 1965, Random House published Robert Penn Warren’s book titled Who Speaks for the Negro? In preparation for writing the volume, Warren traveled throughout the United States in early 1964 and spoke with large numbers of men and women who were involved in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
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Who Speaks for the Negro? is a 1965 book of interviews by Robert Penn Warren conducted with Civil Rights Movement activists. The book was reissued by Yale University Press in 2014.
19 de ene. de 2022 · Who speaks for the Negro? by. Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989, author. Publication date. 2014. Topics. African Americans -- Civil rights. Publisher. New Haven : Yale University Press.
Who Speaks for the Negro? The book was the culmination of Warren's effort "to find out something, first hand, about the people, some of them anyway, who are making the Negro Revolution what it is- one of the dramatic events of the American story" (xxxiii). Throughout 1964, Warren traveled South and North,
30 de sept. de 2014 · 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....
I believe that the future will be merciful to us all. Revolutionist and reactionary, victim and executioner, betrayer and betrayed, they shall all be pitied together when the light breaks . . . A character in Under Western Eyes, by JOSEPH CONRAD.
