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RECENTLY PUBLISHED NEGRO REFERENCE AND RESEARCH TOOLS

ERNEST KAISER

Salk, Erwin A. (compiler and editor). A LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO NEGRO HISTORY. Quadrangle Books, Chicago, Ill. 1966. xviii, 170 pp. $4.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper).
Welsch, Erwin K. THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES: A RESEARCH GUIDE. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind. 1965. xiii, 138 pp. $5.00 (cloth); $1.85 (paper).
Sloan, Irving J. THE AMERICAN NEGRO: A CHRONOLOGY AND FACT BOOK. Oceana Publications, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 1965. 84 pp. $2.85.
Miller, Elizabeth W. (compiler). THE NEGRO IN AMERICA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. For the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1966. xvii, 190 pp. $6.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper).
Work, Monroe N. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NEGRO IN AFRICA AND AMERICA. Octagon Books, New York. 1965. xiii, 698 pp. $25.00.
Spangler, Earl. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEGRO HISTORY: SELECTED AND ANNOTATED ENTRIES: GENERAL AND MINNESOTA. Ross and Haines, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. 1963. 101 pp. $7.50.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SURVEY: THE NEGRO IN PRINT. The Negro Bibliographic and Research Center, Inc., Washington, D. C. (Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1965). Published bimonthly. $7.50 a year; $1.25 per copy.

SEVERAL reference and research guides, bibliographies and chronologies in Negro history, sociology, civil rights and other fields have been published recently. Most of these have been listed and annotated in various numbers of FREEDOMWAYS under the heading "Recent Books." However, some of these Negro reference books deserve more extended treatment than can be given in the listing with brief comments. And so this is a round-up of recent reference books of this kind on the Negro.* Most of these guides and bibliographies are also in cheap, paperback editions and this means much wider circulation and readership. None of these books, with the exception of Monroe Work's giant bibliography first published in 1928, is definitive, but taken together, they represent considerable interest at this time in

[[Footnote]]*The American Negro Reference Book, edited by John P. Davis, will be reviewed in an article on The Negro Heritage Library in the next issue. [[/Footnote]]

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