“An appeal to conscience.”—Murray Kempton, The New York Review of Books
“An important achievement, an indispensable contribution to the Freedom movement.”—Michael Harrington, Book Week
“Put very simply, Dark Ghetto is an enduring social and sociological classic . . . An important book, and in light of subsequent history of black Americans, a landmark book”—Robert K. Merton
“Immensely informative, carefully and soberly reasoned, and well written.”—Robert Penn Warren