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Robert Penn warren
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records the heartbeat of arevolution
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"I
WANTED
to find out something, first hand,
about the people who are making the
Negro Revolution ... to make my reader
see, hear, and feel as immediately as possible,
what I saw, heard and felt,"
To write this story, Pulitzer Prize winner
Robert Penn Warren traveled thousands of
miles, and asked thousands of questions. He
met Negro leaders in the comfortable New
York offices of the Urban League, and he met
them in the heart of terror-filled bayou coun–
try. He spoke to Martin Luther King, James
Farmer, Roy Wilkins, Carl Rowan, Malcolm
X, Adam Clayton Powell, and dozens more.
His tools: a portable tape-recorder and- the
art of one of America's greatest novelists,
The result: an extraordinary, dramatic report–
on virtually every 'important Negro leader
today .. ,what he wants, what he stands for,
what he is.
WHO
SPEAKS FOR
THE NEGRO?
RANDOM HOUSE
