Kentucky born poet, novelist, journalist, Pulitzer prize winner,
Robert Penn Warren will be listened to as the average Northerner
with comparable acceptance would not. And what has he to
contribute? He went back to the Deep South; he talked to Negroes,
to whites, on both sides of the issue. He listened, with
understanding of the deep inner splits that made kindly men turn
bitter and violent, in opposition to what they felt was happening,
was going to happen. He comes up with no conclusions, but somehow
what he has to report clears some away of the cobwebs. One begins
to see that for the most part, the aggressive opponents of
desegregation do not represent the better element , but that those
who know in their hearts that it will come , prefer to stand aside
than to fight on either side. One feels that Warren himself accepts
the difficulties as a tragic slowing down process, possibly even a
set-back to what might have come anyhow, but feels that the
"creeping progress" goes on. And he recognizes- as he turns North-a
vast sense of relief at escape from responsibility, from the
divisiveness that characterizes the Southerner. (Kirkus Reviews)
First published in 1956, "Segregation" is a collection of Robert
Penn Warren's informal conversations with southerners in the wake
of the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. Warren, who in his
own writings often explored the theme of race in American life,
traveled through his native region to talk with scores of
individuals--taxi drivers, NAACP leaders, members of White Citizens
groups, college students, preachers--to report their responses to
the Court's decision.
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