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Freedomways Third Quarter 1966

NEGRO-JEWISH RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE CONVENED BY THE CONFERENCE ON JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES, NEW YORK CITY. New York: Citadel Press. VIII, 71 pp. $1.50 (paper). (First published in Jewish Social Studies [Jan. 1965], this symposium has good papers and remarks by Horace Mann Bond, Leo Srole, Bayard Rustin, Cleveland Robinson and Morris U. Schappes plus a five-page comprehensive bibliography.)

Nelson, Truman (editor). DOCUMENTS OF UPHEAVAL: SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON'S THE LIBERATOR, 1831-1865. New York: Hill and Wang, 282 pp. $5.95.

Newman, Dorothy K., et al. THE NEGROES IN THE UNITED STATES: THEIR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SITUATION (June 1966). Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C. 241 pp. $1.25 (paper). Order from: Supt. of Documents, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. (This is the latest and largest of several editions issued over the past eight or ten years.)

Parsons, Talcott and Clark, Kenneth B. (editors). THE NEGRO AMERICAN. Foreword by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin. (This symposium, with 30 pieces by leaders in the civil rights movement and scholars, is the two recent special numbers of the journal Daedalus with the same title.)

Proctor, Samuel D. THE YOUNG NEGRO IN AMERICA: 1960-1980. New York: Associated Press. 160 pp. $3.95. (A look at the Negro's potential, needs and possibilities by a former Negro college president, now special assistant to Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.)

Richardson, Joe M. THE NEGRO IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF FLORIDA, 1865-1877. Florida State University Studies, No. 46. Tallahassee, Fla.: Florida State University Press. XII, 255 pp. $7.00. (This is the second recent study of the Negro in Reconstruction in a specific state. The other is Joel Williamson's After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877 [1965].)

Rodman, Bella. LIONS IN THE WAY. Chicago, Ill.: Follett Publishing Co. 238 pp. $3.95. (A novel about school desegregation in a southern border town. For young people.)

Salk, Erwin A. (compiler and editor). A LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO NEGRO HISTORY. Chicago, Ill.: Quadrangle Books. 188 pp. $4.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (A valuable handbook of and bibliographical guide to Negro history.)

Silver, James W. MISSISSIPPI: THE CLOSED SOCIETY. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World. 366 pp. $5.75 (cloth); $1.75 (paper). (New enlarged edition of the 1963 book. Has a new 120-page section on the Mississippi civil rights struggle titled "Revolution Begins in the Closed Society.")

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