Indignant Heart

1979, the first UK edition of Charles Denby's searing memoir 'Testimony of a Black American Worker'

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Printing Details

First UK edition. Paperback. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 295pp.

"Part one of Indignant Heart appeared in 1952, at the height of the McCarthy period, under the assumed name of Matthew Ward. Both names and places in the original work were changed to protect against the vicious repression rampant at that time. Here, Charles Denby describes his experiences from childhood to adulthood in the oppressive South. Escaping to the North, he discovers not freedom, but a more sophisticated form of racism and a new bondage in the auto factories of Detroit.

Part two is a commentary on every significant mass movement for freedom in the US in the last twenty-five years. The power of Denby's writing stems from his participation in all these struggles—the Montgomery Bus Boycott, discussions with Martin Luther King, wildcat strikes in the auto plants, debates at UAW union meetings, fights against the dehumanising effects of automation."

Condition

A good reading copy. There is a crease to the front cover and foxing to the page edges, heaviest to the top edge but the main body of text remains in strong readable condition.