12 Million Black Voices

by Richard Wright

Book Overview

12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in 1930s America--their misery and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560254467
• ISBN13: 9781560254461
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A Reveiw of History

I'm always impressed with writings by Richard Wright. This book took me on a written and pictorial journey in history of the plight of African Americans in this country. Wright did an excellent job of connecting the past with the present. What a wonderful history lesson!