About the Author

Author of the Preface-
A. J. Verdelle, lecturer in the creative writing program at Princeton, is the author of The Good Negress.

Introducer-
Cornel West, University Professor of Religion at Princeton, is the author of Race Matters and The American Evasion of Philosophy, and is the co-author of The Future of American Progressivism.

Reviews

“A powerful, moving story . . . This new edition
should restore Griggs to his rightful place among black
intellectuals and protest novelists.”
—John Stauffer, Frederick Douglass Prize winner for The Black Hearts of Men