According to Carl Rowan, writing this biography was "tantamount to trying to write the social, legal, economic, political, and moral history of this nation over most of the twentieth century." Crucial events in American history, such as the black migration out of the South, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Depression, and the African ...
This is a first-rate account of what it was like to live as a second-class citizen, to experience the segregation, humiliation, danger, stereotypes, economic exploitation, and taboos that were all part of life for African-American in the 1940s and 1950s.
From both the individual's point of view and that of the nation, this book is an account of racial struggles, from the Depression to today. In this memoir, the author tells how he rose from poverty-stricken origins in McMinnville, Tennessee, to life at the forefront of social change.
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