12 Million Black Voices; A Folk History of the Negro in the United States

New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Text by Richard Wright, Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), heavily rubbed and with multiple chips, tears, and creases, tidemarks at the flap folds. Oatmeal cloth, lightly toned, with a red ink panel and lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, lacking the front endpaper, tidemarks at the fore-edges of the pages. Wright's history of the Black experience in America that "accepts as basic and centrally historical those materials of Negro life identified with the countless back millions who made up the bulk of the slave (truncated) population during the sevententh, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; those teeming black millions who endured the phyiscal and spiritual ravages of serfdom; those legions of nameless blacks who felt the shock and hope of sudden emancipation; those terrified black folk who withstood the brutal wrath of the Ku Klux Klan, and who fled the cotton and tobacco plantations to seek refuge in northern and southern cities coincident with the decline of the cotton culture of the Old South. (Inventory #: 7782)