Volume 3, Number 5 · October 22, 1964
Who Shall Overcome?
By Robert Penn Warren
My People Is the Enemy
by William Stringfellow
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 149 pp., $3.95
Fire-Bell in the Night
by Oscar Handlin
Little, Brown, 110 pp., $3.50
William Stringfellow, a young Episcopal layman, fresh out of the Harvard Law School, came to this 'home,' and lived here seven years. He was not there in any official capacity, and he was not trying to 'go Negro.' He was, rather, trying to be himself: 'There was no reason in Harlem to repudiate anything in my own history or heritage as a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, nor to seek to identify myself with the people of Harlem. What was necessary was just to be myself.' My People Is the Enemy is a powerful record, written with verve and literary skill, of those seven years.
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