Moscow, Nauka Publishing House. 1970. 224 p. The print run is 9,000. Price 78 kopecks. In recent years, the number of publications devoted to the situation and struggle of Negroes in the United States has significantly increased in our country. A special place among them is occupied by the works of direct participants or leaders and ideologists of the Negro movement, including selected works of Martin Luther King, which are an important and original source, as well as a study of the Negro problem. Currently, it is particularly relevant. After the end of the war, in the context of the growth of the forces of socialism and the world revolutionary movement, a new stage of the struggle of American Negroes began. During this period, there are significant shifts in the social and class structure of the Black population, caused by the mass migration of Negroes to major cities of the country. Many of the processes and consequences of the post-war evolution of the Negro movement have either not yet been reflected in the literature at all, or are far from fully understood. The works of M. L. King, included in the peer-reviewed edition1, contain important material that helps to understand many aspects of this evolution: the causes and nature of the rise of the Negro movement in the 50s and 60s, its goals and prospects, allies and fellow travelers, the essence of federal and local government policies towards Negroes, and many others. others. Studying the works of M. L. King allows you to see the Negro movement "from the inside", through the eyes of its direct participant and leader. His works reveal the deep foundation of the unprecedented rise of the liberation struggle of American Negroes, show that the origins of the movement are rooted primarily in the material situation of working Negroes, in the strengthening of their relative impoverishment, in their political disenfranchisement, embodied in the status of "second-class citizens". M. L. King clearly stated the main reason ... Read more