Jonathan Blanks’s Reviews > Who Speaks for the Negro? > Status Update

Fifty years ago, the greatest Southern writer of his generation--perhaps the greatest the region has ever produced (apologies to Flannery O'Connor and her fans)--recorded interviews with black Civil Rights Movement leaders in activism, education, letters, and personal bravery. Illuminating read on the times and mindsets of those involved and one of the Movement's more enigmatic, older liberal supporters.