All the Voices

Originally published in 1960, this novel tells the moving and thought-provoking story of an extraordinary white man married to a unique black woman. Coming from an ignorant and unambitious farm family, Claude Depler, after several years of unsuccessful job-hunting, finally makes a name and a place for himself as head of a community center in Chicago. Here he meets and marries an outstanding black woman whose name is nationally recognized as an enlightened and vigorous advancer of the American Ne