Related Conference
The book and these interviews have inspired a follow-up conference/response, We Speak for Ourselves, April 3-4, 2008, sponsored in part by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University.
Watch video from the conference on YouTube:
- Panel presentation of Who Speaks for the Negro?: A special panel including Houston Baker, Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot examine Robert Penn Warren's 1965 book Who Speaks for the Negro?.
- "Allowing a Living Past to Compel a Pregnant Now": Rev. Lawson's keynote presentation.
Original materials (recordings)
through the generous support of the University of Kentucky and Yale University.
Some abstracts courtesy of the University of Kentucky.
Support from Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University