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From the publisher: "In 1969 a group of distinguished African American intellectuals met at Haverford College in order to devise strategies to dissuade young blacks from adopting a separatist political agenda. The participants included some of the most prominent figures of the civil rights era--Ralph Ellison, John Hope Franklin, and J. Saunders Redding, to name only a notable few. Although these discussions were recorded, transcribed, and edited, they were never published because the funding for them was withdrawn. This volume at last makes the historic Haverford discussions available, rescuing for the modern reader some of the most eloquent voices in the intellectual history of black America."

This streaming audiobook is a follow up to The Measure of a Man, and is read by the author.

An e-book from the University of Chicago Press.

An e-book from the Chicago Review Press.

Streaming audiobook

from WSU Libraries Digital Collections: "In February of 2001, the Spokesman-Review produced a month long series of articles on black history titled "Through Spokane's Eyes Moments in Black History," focusing in particular on the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As part of that series, Rebecca Nappi conducted a series of interviews with individuals with ties to both the civil rights movement and to Spokane."

From the overview of the collection: "As a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1805-1806, William Clark’s servant York was one of the first African Americans to set foot in the Pacific Northwest. African Americans have continued to come to the region ever since. Before the mid-nineteenth century, they came as fur trappers, pioneers, and homesteaders. After 1860 they came in search of homesteads and work opportunities in mining and with the railroad companies. They were enterprising single men, women, and families who persisted in the face of numerous social obstacles to form the communities that today dot the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington."