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    Who Speaks for the Negro? is a 1965 book of interviews by Robert Penn Warren conducted with Civil Rights Movement activists. The book was reissued by Yale...
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    "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 and crossing the Mississippi River on...
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    James Lawson (activist) (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    Wallace University History: James Lawson The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities' Who Speaks for the Negro? Digital Archive Collection Civil Rights...
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  • Gilbert Moses (category Deaths from multiple myeloma in the United States)
    John O'Neal, c.1964 in Who Speaks for the Negro? Digital Archive of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Jean and Alexander Heard...
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    James Baldwin (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    fight for one's civil rights. In a 1964 interview with Robert Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?, Baldwin rejected the idea that the civil...
    144 KB (18,176 words) - 01:45, 6 June 2024
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    interview with Robert Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?, Wilkins declared, We Negroes want the improvements in the public school system – and...
    23 KB (2,651 words) - 14:52, 21 April 2024
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    Ralph Ellison (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    history, and the Civil Rights Movement for his book Who Speaks for the Negro? In 1958, Ellison returned to the United States to take a position teaching...
    31 KB (3,393 words) - 13:41, 3 June 2024
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    Malcolm X (redirect from Malcolm the Tenth)
    interviewed on the subjects of segregation and the Nation of Islam by Robert Penn Warren for Warren's 1965 book Who Speaks for the Negro? Throughout 1964...
    172 KB (18,483 words) - 16:45, 16 June 2024
  • Kelly Miller Smith (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?, Smith comments that the end to segregation was achieved through much hardship and many negotiations by the NCLC...
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    Conflict in the South. He subsequently adopted a high profile as a supporter of racial integration. In 1965, he published Who Speaks for the Negro?, a collection...
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    Andrew Young (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    1964 interview with author Robert Penn Warren for his book, Who Speaks for the Negro?, Young recalls the tensions of segregation in New Orleans, especially...
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  • Wyatt Tee Walker (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?. This was critical for gaining national support among American citizens and the Kennedy administration for the...
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  • Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro? Archive. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2015. "Speak Truth to Power: The Martin...
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    James Farmer (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    to the Congress of Racial Equality. In an interview with Robert Penn Warren in 1964 for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?, Farmer described the founding...
    28 KB (3,454 words) - 02:58, 26 May 2024
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    Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro? He developed a formidable public following in the community through his crusades for jobs and affordable...
    52 KB (5,801 words) - 16:05, 7 April 2024
  • In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The...
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    Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro? and archived at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, Young expressed the mission of the Urban League...
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  • Robert Frederick Collins (category Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana)
    published in Who Speaks for the Negro? searchable transcript at Who Speaks for the Negro? Digital Archive of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities...
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  • 1964 interview with Robert Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?. In 1967 Williams represented the I-40 Steering Committee in their legal...
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    William H. Hastie (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit)
    Robert Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?, Hastie commented that as a judge, he had not been able to be "out in the hustings, and to personally...
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