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

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Third Printing. Hardcover. Good (Ex-Library with sticker on lower DJ spine and to rear pastedown; DJ is heavily chipped and worn/toned/foxed; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but toned with occasionaly foxing/smudging; textblock is cracked.). B&W illustrated DJ with red, black and light brown lettering; beige cloth boards with red and beige lettering; 152 pp.; richly illustrated. 12 Million Black Voices combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Farm Security (truncated) Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, run-down farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in America - their misery and weariness under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates the story of these pictures and delivers a powerful commentary on the origins and history of black oppression in this country. -- WorldCat. (Inventory #: 199934)