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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 27 (1962)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

2 people
Dwight L. Dumond どわいと える でゅもんど Winner

Antislavery is a large-scale history of the American antislavery movement, tracing it from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Built on thirty years of research, it organizes a wide range of material on politics, religion, legal battles, and the struggle for Black freedom.

A research book that draws the full shape of the antislavery movement from a vast documentary base.

422 pages
American historyabolitionismCivil WarReconstructionpolitical history
John Howard Griffin じょん はわーど ぐりふぃん Winner

Black Like Me is a nonfiction book in which a white reporter darkens his skin with medication and travels through the American South as a Black man. Written in diary form, it conveys open discrimination, daily humiliation, and the reality of segregation together with the writer's own unease.

A reportage that crosses the color line in order to describe the lived reality of discrimination firsthand.

208 pages
racial discriminationthe Southnonfictionreportagecivil rights