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Oct 11, 2016 rated it really liked it
beautiful, humbling, brave.
Marie (UK)
I don't know why but this book does not seem to have the power behind its words that the much later book on the same issue Between the World and Me has. This one suggests that the mindset of the negro has to change as much as that of the white man before integration can be achieved. It felt dry ...more
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