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Indignant Heart A Black Worker's Journal Charles Denby

Charles Denby's auobiography is a testament to the struggle for freedom. In the first part of his story, Denby recounts the hardships he endured growing up as a Black in the Rural South. He escapes to the North only to discover a more sophisticated form of racism and bondage. The second part of his story, written 25 years after the first, chronicles his experiences in the mid-1950s as the Civil Rights Movement was about to explode. We hear his stories as an active participant in all the mass struggles of the next two decades—from the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott to the 1967 uprising in Detroit and the Black Caucuses in the unions that followed It is from his participation in these human rights struggles that Denby's prose gains its force. This new edition contains an introduction by the prominent Black labor historian William Harris and an appendix by the revolutionary philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya.

"If the book is about marginality and degradation among black people, it id also a story about the strength of character and sense of community that Afro-Americans exemplified, even when forced to live under oppressive circumstances"—William Harris, from the Introduction

African American Life Series $41.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2219-0 $25.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2220-4 328 pages 15 illustrations 1989 (1978)