The Black Experience in the 20th Century An Autobiography and Meditation Peter Abrahams A brave and powerful memoir by a well-known Third World writer on the problem of the color line in the last century. The Black Experience in the 20th Century is both a personal memoir and a powerful meditation on what W. E. B. Dubois defined at the beginning of the century as "the problem of the color line; of the relations between the lighter and darker races...