Download - Who Speaks for the Negro?

WHO SPEAKS FOR TlHE NE-
GRO? by Robert Penn Warren.
Random House. New
York. 454 pages. $5.95.
A valuable book for the
politically conscious looking
for an intelligent analysis of
the motives, goals and personalities
of the leaders and
voices of Negroes' drive for
civil rights.
Mr. Warren packed his
journalistic suitcase with tape
recording, years of contact
with his subject, a poetic sense
of justice and the ability to
ask pointed questions and get
answers.
However, he does not leave
his study with a written transscript
of miles of recording
tape. He probes and bares
each of his subjects - from
Malcolm X to Roy Wilkins
to Adam Clayton Powell to the
reader's eye, never hesitating
to chip away veneer or
applaud reality and intelligence.
B. B. K.

The News and Courier, Charleston, S. 0.
Sept. 12, 1965