The words of W.E.B. Du Bois, like the tradition of Negro protest, belong to the present as meaningfully as to the past. Here, in a series of autobiographical statements and manifestoes, the most eloquent spokesmen of the Negro protest movement – from Reconstruction to the march on Washington – raise their voices once again, assuring the Negro people of their humanity, goading them to defiance, attuning the world to their plight. Those who, like Jim Crow, would picture the Negro as passive have only to read the militant writings of Frederick Douglass, Walter. White’s graphic description of the 1943 Harlem riots, the dramatic story of the Montgomery bus boycott told by Martin Luther King, Jr., the bitter novels of the Harlem Renaissance, or the racist program of the Black Muslims. These among other selections from an absorbing history of the Negro’s resistance to discrimination.