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

New York: Viking Press, 1941.

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Hardcover. First edition. Photo-Direction by Edwin Rosskam. Quarto. Fine in attractive good or better dustwrapper with a few very small nicks at the crown and modest rubbing at the extremities. A better than usual copy. Beautiful photographically illustrated essay about the black experience, with 147 striking images by Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn, and others, with text by Wright.

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Item #451926 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Richard WRIGHT.

Richard Wright
birth name: Richard Nathaniel Wright
born: 9/4/1908
died: 11/28/1960
nationality: USA

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Novelist and short-story writer who was among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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