The first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. "Lawrence Jackson's monumental and epic study, The Indignant Generation, provides a masterful overview of yet another key period in African American literary history. . . . At every level, this book of encyclopedic proportions . . . is well researched and well written in an elegant and superb style."---Riche Richardson, Southern Literary Journal