Black Lives, White Lives: Three Decades of Race Relations in America

Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue features a remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists.

One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight—foot cross on his front lawn. "I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it." Twenty—four ye...