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 weariness
under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in
northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates
the story of these 90 pictures and delivers a powerful commentary
on the origins and history of black oppression in this country.
Also included are new prefaces by Douglas Brinkley, Noel Ignatiev,
and Michael Eric Dyson. "Among all the works of Wright, 12 Million
Black Voices stands out as a work of poetry, ...passion, ...and of
love."--David Bradley "A more eloquent statement of its kind could
hardly have been devised."--The New York Times Book Review
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