A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle
by
Jerry Gershenhorn
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper in the state. He used the power of the press...