+ − N Y Times p22 D 12 ’20 1600w
“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments. Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C. Willcox
+ − Outlook 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 1050w
“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple desire to learn the truth.”
+ R of Rs 63:112 Ja ’21 100w
“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads, Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than his own side of the question.”
− + Sat R 130:438 N 27 ’20 1050w + Spec 125:703 N 27 ’20 3000w
“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master. But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret differently.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p6 D 20 ’20 650w The Times [London] Lit Sup p727 N 11 ’20 2500w
GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL. Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814