The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak s shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having the weight and authority of a sociological investigation. This Southern Classics edition makes Spivak s narrative available to modern readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A. Davis as well as additional documents Spivak gathered during his investigation into the abuses of the Depression-era Southern prison system.
Georgia Nigger exposes the institutionalized system of sharecropping, debt peonage, and exorbitant chain gang sentences that trapped many southern...

The material in this small volume just barely scratches the surface of a problem which is becoming increasingly grave: the activities of Nazi agents in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. During the years John Spivak observed some of them, watching the original, crudely organized and directed propaganda machine develop, grow and leave an influence for wider than most people seem to realize. What at first appeared to be merely a distasteful attempt by Nazi Government officials at direct interference in the affairs of the American people and their Government, has now assumed the...