Against this monstrous amount of sack, one finds but a penny’s worth of bread. The conservative South has not lacked willing spokesmen; it has lacked agreeable publishers. A bare handful of works present a contrary view, and some of these--Herman Talmadge’s _You and Segregation_, and W. E. Debnam’s impudent _Weep No More, My Lady_, and _My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night_--are in paperback. The scant list of hardcover works espousing the point of view of several million white Southerners includes only Bill Workman’s _The Case for the South_ (1960), Carleton Putnam’s _Race and Reason, a Yankee View_, and my own _The Sovereign States_ (1957), a book I still like very much. (There is also Charles P. Bloch’s lawyerly _States Rights: The Law of the Land_, but that probably should be mentioned later in books on legal aspects of the question.) One scarcely knows where to begin on books dealing with the Negro as such. The literature in this field is unending. In fairness, the student should seek out a couple of books that advance the traditional Southern view: Earnest Sevier Cox’s _White America_ (1923) and, from as far back as 1910, E. H. Randle’s slim _Characteristics of the Southern Negro_. In the same year that Randle wrote his book, an English critic, William Archer, brought forth _Through Afro-America_. These three works are period pieces now, but they still have value. I have relied heavily in writing this book on Nathaniel Weyl’s _The Negro in American Civilization_. Needless to say, a hundred other works are arrayed against his point of view. The student doubtless will have to begin with almost anything from W. E. B. DuBois, keeping in mind that DuBois, the grand old Red of the NAACP, formally joined the Communist Party in 1961. His works are important, nonetheless. Jerome Dowd’s _The Negro in American Life_ (1926) is long, and outdated, but still most useful. A thoughtful reader will find a few hours for Tuskegee’s Robert R. Moton; his autobiography of 1920, _Finding a Way Out_, even then predicted a day when the white South would “stop feeling and begin thinking” about its Negro problem, and his _What the Negro Thinks_ (1929) offers an insight into the continuing nature of Negro goals. A more militant work by the NAACP’s James Weldon Johnson, _Negro Americans, What Now?_ appeared in 1934. And thinking of the NAACP, Mary White Ovington’s _The Walls Came Tumbling Down_ (1947) contains some material not available elsewhere.