《非裔美国人的生活：回忆录》

威廉·拉斯伯里在1994年7月的《华盛顿邮报》上写道：“相信问题可以解决的人往往忙于解决问题。”。“休·B·普赖斯是个信徒。”
在担任全国城市联盟（National Urban League）主席和首席执行官期间，普赖斯发起了争取非裔美国人成就的运动，向联邦政府施压，要求其打击警察暴行和种族貌相，为平权行动辩护，并帮助修复黑人和犹太社区之间的紧张关系。然而，他在联盟中的角色只是众多成就之一。普莱斯追踪他的先辈，其中包括乔治·华盛顿治下在福吉谷作战的尼罗·霍利；乔治和丽贝卡·拉蒂默逃过了奴隶制度，他们乘着小船，以主人和奴隶的身份向北旅行；以及与亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔和托马斯·爱迪生合作的刘易斯·拉蒂默。普莱斯写的是他在华盛顿霍华德大学附近的一个社区的童年，以及他在一所新的综合高中，然后在阿默斯特和耶鲁法学院的学生时代。他涵盖了他的各种各样的和非常成功的事业，从他早期作为法律服务律师到他在洛克菲勒基金会的执行职位。
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This African-American Life: A Memoir
“People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it,” William Raspberry wrote in the Washington Post in July 1994. “Hugh B. Price is a believer.”
During his tenure as president and CEO of the National Urban League, Price launched its Campaign for African-American Achievement, pressured the federal government to combat police brutality and racial profiling, defended affirmative action, and helped repair frayed relations between the black and Jewish communities. Yet his role with the League was just one among many accomplishments. Price traces his forbears, among them Nero Hawley, who fought at Valley Forge under George Washington; George and Rebecca Latimer, who escaped slavery by stowing away on a boat and traveling north as master and slave; and Lewis Latimer, who worked with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. Price writes about his childhood in a neighborhood near Howard University in Washington, and his student days in a newly integrated high school and then at Amherst and Yale Law School. He covers his varied and highly successful careers, from his early days as a legal services lawyer to his executive position at the Rockefeller Foundation.
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