Voices in Our Blood
Jon Meacham 
Random House Publishing Group
<p><b>Voices in Our Blood</b> is a literary anthology of the most important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement, past and present.  It showcases what forty of the nation's best writers -- including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright -- had to say about the central domestic drama of the American Century.<br><br>Editor Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of black and white perspectives and experiences.  The result is an unprecedented and powerful portrait of the movement's spirit and struggle, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength.<br><br><br></p>