SOURCE: "Joshua of West 138th St.," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, February 17, 1946, p. 10.

Wilkins was an American critic, editor, and journalist. The editor of the Kansas City Call and Crisis, Wilkins held numerous executive positions in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Honored for his work as a civil and human rights activist on various occasions, he received the NAACP's Springarn Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In the following review, he considers Marching Blacks to be an important book offering insights into political militancy in African-American life.

The principal recommendation for solution of America's so-called Negro problem advanced by Minister-Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. [in his Marching Blacks] is emigration from the South to the North and West. In his best emotional style, not unlike the peroration of a sermon at his huge Abyssinian Baptist Church, Mr. Powell exhorts...