In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro 1865-1916

Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Apollo Edition 1967. Very Good.

This book is the second volume of In Their Own Words, the history of the Black American told in three volumes of letters, speeches, memoirs, and testimony of Blacks themselves. The documents in the second volume span the period from the end of the Civil War to the outset of World War I, with emphasis on the Reconstruction period and the vigorous statements of early advocates of civil rights