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In their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, 1916-1966 Vol. 3
In their Own Words A History of the American Negro 19161966 Vol 3 Author:Milton Meltzer, ed This third and final volume of the series begins with the great migration form the octton fields of the South to the big cities of the north. Through letters, memoirs, autobiographies, articles, editorials, interviews, affidavits, eye-witness accounts, and testimony given in public hearings, we come the understand the deep changes taking place... more » in the Negro's life. His part in two world wars, his achievements in the Negro renaissance of the twenties, the disaster of the great depression, the hope offered by the New Deal an dthe powerful surge of unionism--all are expressed in his own words. The volume concludes with several voices speaking from the battlelines of today's civil rights movement.« less