Silent Voices: The Southern Negro Woman Today

by Carson, Josephine

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Book desription: NY: Delacorte Press, 1969 FINE/VERY GOOD First Edition, stated 1st printing. Previous owner's name on title page, otherwise unmarked and AS-NEW. Unclipped DJ has a couple of 'micro' tears at the head of the spine. 5.75" by 8.5", 273 pages. - One of the most historic and important 20th century books on black American women. A "much-needed book that presents at last a remarkably perceptive, moving and dramatic story of today's southern Negro woman, the American whose voice is at this moment the most silent in our culture. Based on lengthy research throughout the southern states, during which time the author lived among and interviewed countless Negro women, Silent Voices is a detailed picture of the lives of these women - whether they be workers on Delta plantations, teachers, housewives, girls in Negro colleges, domestic servants, nurses, old women attempting to become literate, or highly literate women of any age. The book that emerges is an essential contribution to an understanding of this neglected aspect of American life, giving voice hitherto unheard black women of the South concerning their knowledge, needs, desires, hopes and feelings - about themselves, their futures, their religions, their friends, employers and leaders; about their politics; about segregation and integration; about white people and white culture; about love and old age and death; above all, about human dignity." .

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