Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews, Edited by Stephen Drury Smith and Catherine Ellis. A year later, Penn Warren published, A book that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. called “the definitive history of the NAACP,”, There were more than a few books left off that you should also add to your TBR pile, for Black History Month and beyond. These were the “Weird Watsons” after all. Posted on October 1, 2020 October 1, 2020 by aquinaslc. I was no longer looking at the book as someone distanced from the past it was set in. 1. Close. There was Mildred Taylor’s “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” and Walter Dean Myers’s “Fallen Angels.” I understand now that these books are wonderful; that they tell important stories that should be passed from generation to generation. There is no filter, no distance, between us and history. But Black History Month is more than a time to focus on the pain of our past. He spoke at length with luminaries such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Ralph Ellison, and Roy Wilkins, eliciting reflections and frank assessments of race in America and the possibilities for meaningful change. [CDATA[/* >