| Description: | The Who Speaks for the Negro? web site is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by American poet, literary critic, teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Penn Warren in 1965. The digital collection was created and designed by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University from original materials that were provided by the University of Kentucky and Yale University libraries, and digitized with the permission of the Warren estate in order to create a full digital record of Warren's research for the book. In 1964, as Warren prepared to write this book, he spoke to men and women involved in the Civil Rights Movement across the United States, and recorded these conversations on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. His subjects included nationally-recognized leaders of the Movement, as well as civil rights workers who worked locally, and whose names might not be otherwise known. The archive contains digitized versions of Warren's original reel-to-reel recordings, as well as copies of transcripts, correspondence, and other print materials related to his research for this book. The print materials represented in the digital collection are displayed in two parts that include a non-searchable image of the original document, and the re-transcribed text of the document, which is searchable. |
