Arna Bontemps, editor of American Negro Poetry and author of numerous other works, was a novelist, poet, essayist, editor, librarian, and public relations director.
Jack Conroy was the founder of The Anvil, the Depression- era proletarian magazine famous for launching the careers of such writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and William Carlos Williams. He was also the author of The Disinherited: A Novel of the 1930s (University of Missouri Press).
"Bontemps and Conroy crossed the borders of race, culture and class
to join as coauthors when such crossings carried great risks, as
they inevitably do for those who venture first. . . . Bontemps and
Conroy's combined strength lay in illuminating the struggle of
blacks by making it personal and humane."--Douglas Wixson "One of
the remedies we Americans need to take as part of the treatment for
a malady of heart and soul and mind which is a great danger for our
nation."--Dorothy Canfield"As human and enlightening a panorama of
the main trends and motives of Negro group life as has yet been
given."--Alain Locke"An eloquent explanation of the processes of
migration."--Horace Cayton
"The cityward trend of African Americans in recent years has been
fantastic, and the city has provided the setting for the current
struggle for equality. . . . Bontemps and Conroy have given us an
excellent account, rich in drama as well as detail, of one of the
really great migrations of all times."--John Hope Franklin
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