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The State of African-Americans in 1929 (The Book League, 1929)

This book review of Scott Nearing’s Black Americastyle=border:none
was published on the eve of the Great Depression and it provides a very accurate account of that community.

There are in the United States today, if statistics do not lie, some twelve million Negroes. The population of the Argentine is not so large, nor that of Holland, nor that of Sweden. Eight million of these dark Americans live in the South. In Georgia alone there are more than a million colored people…How do they live – these blacks in a country controlled by whites.


Author Scott Nearing (1883 – 1983) was an American naturalist, educator and civil rights advocate.


Click here to read an article by Ralph Ellison concerning Black writers of the 1930s.

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