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12 million black voices : a folk history of the Negro in the United States / text by Richard Wright ; photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam.

Accession number
PML 187960
Creator
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Published
New York : Viking Press, 1941.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
"First published in October 1941"--Title page verso.
"The photographs in this book--with the exception of a few otherwise credited--were selected from the files of the Farm Security Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture"--Page 149.
Description
152 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: To - Joe Sadow with my best Richard Wright.
Provenance
Inscribed to Joe Sadow; Carter Burden.
Binding
Cream cloth stamped in red on spine with photographic illustration dust jacket.
Classification
Department