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RECENT BOOKS
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Howe, Irving (editor). THE RADIAL PAPERS. New York: Doubleday. $5.95.

(Howe, the editor of [[italics]] Dissent Magazine,[[italics]] presents about 20 essays here on the need for socialism in the U.S. Tom Kahn writes on "Problems of the Negro Movement" and Bayard Rustin on "the Future of the Civil Rights Movement.")

Hunnicutt, C. W. (editor). URBAN EDUCATION AND CULTURAL DEPRIVAION. Syracuse, N.Y.: School of Education, Syracuse University. 126 pp. $1.50 (paper). (Has Patricia C. Sexton's "Learning in Spanish Harlem"; Negro sociologist Charles V. Willie's "Deprivation and Alienation; A Compound Situation"; and essays by Frank Riessman and others.)

Jones, LeRoi. HOME: SOCIAL ESSAYS. New York: William Morrow. 252 pp. $4.00. (A collection of  essays written by the Negro poet, playwright and jazz critic over the past several years. They constitute his ideological autobiography as he moved from beatnik avant-gardism to black nationalism.)

Kaufman, Bob. SOLITUDES CROWDED WITH LONELINESS. New York; 

New Directions Press. 87 pp. $1.60 (paper). (The first book, published in 1963, by an important Negro poet, one of the founders of the San Francisco beat renaissance. Jazz, the blues and protest loom large in Kaufman's poetry.)

Keil, Charles. URBAN BLUES. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. 
(Sociologist Keil says that urban Negro culture includes entertainers and hustlers as culture heroes.)

Lynd, Staughton (editor). NONVIOLENCE IN AMERICA: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. New York: Bobbs-Merrill. 530 pp $7.50. (A volume in The American Heritage Series edited by the well-known peace and civil rights leader. Three key essays in the book are Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," William James's "The Moral Equivalent of War" and Martin Luther King's "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence.")

McManus, Edgar J. A HISTORY OF NEGRO SLAVERY IN NEW YORK. 
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 212 pp. $5.95

Mendelsohn, Jack. THE MARTYRS: SIXTEEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE . New York: Harper and Row. 219 pp. $5.99. (About Negro and white men and women who were murdered in the South.)

Meredith, James. THREE YEARS IN MISSISSIPPI: HIS OWN STORY, IN HIS OWN WORDS. Foreword by James W. Silver. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. 328 pp. $5.95. (About Meredith's tumultuous, riotous days at the University of Mississippi before graduated as the first Negro student there.)

THE NEGRO HERITAGE LIBRARY
Davis, John P. (editor). THE AMERICAN NEGRO REFERENCE BOOK.
Educational Heritage, Inc., 533 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers, N.Y. 2 vols. $13.20 each. (A profusely illustrated edition of the recently published reference work. The seventh title in the encyclopedia size series of volumes.)

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