Chronicles of Negro Protest: A Background Book for Young People, Documenting the History of Black Power

In trying to understand how racism became so pervassive in our culture, we have traditionally assented to an historical interpretation which allowed us to see our racial attitudes as developing gradually in repsonse to pragmatic, econmic interests. this book destorys that fiction and robs us of whatever comfort it made possible. The documents in Chronical of Negro Protest correctit an historical error. They make it clear that the enslavement of the African was not incidental to his helplessness, but from the fiery first it invlved a hatred of his blackness which was signified by an anxious willingness to believe in a mythical curse by a drunken old man what the black man was handed over by God for the white man's exploitation.