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FREEDOMWAYS
FOURTH QUARTER 1966

Du Bois. Other magazines also carried articles on him after his death. Even the Wall Street Journal carried a long article on Du Bois at this time. But the only references to Du Bois in this book are to The Souls of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction, one of his Atlanta University studies, the Broderick and Rudwick biographies of Du Bois and Harold Isaac's articly "Du Bois and Africa" published in the London magazine Race ((Nov. 1960). All of the material on the father of the present Negro freedom struffle printed just after his death is ignored here as well as Du Bois's own Black Flame trilogy of novels published in the late 1950's and early 1960's, the reprints in the 1960's of his John Brown biography and The World and Africa, his last book, An A B C of Color, published in 1963 just before his death, and his many articles published in various magazines and newspapers during the period 1954-1965 covered by this book.
"The Ghetto" section lists books on Harlem by Kenneth Clark and Gilbert Osofsky, Patricia Sexton's book on East Harlem and several magazine articles on Harlem but not one article from the special Summer 1963 number of FREEDOMWAYS on Harlem edited by John Henrik Clarke or the book that this issue became in 1964. Or the book Harlem, U.S.A. (1964) also edited by J.H. Clarke. Clarke does get listed once through his Phylon article on the Negro short story. A writer must be in the right or ultra-respectable magazine to get listed his this bibliography. Under the sections "Economic Status and Problems" and "Employment," we find none of the many articles that have appeared in FREEDOMWAYS. Even under "Black Nationalism" there is still nothing from this magazine. This is not ignorance; this is deliberate. We are beginning to understand what Miss Miller means by "selective" in her preface. She is using the word to screen out the material she doesn't like and also to cover up her lack of knowledge in the field.
Other left magazines are given the same snub. There is a piece listed of William L. Patterson on A.D. Fuller in Politicial Affairs, so the compiler knew about this magazine but decided not to list the many articles by James E. Jackson, Herbert Aptheker and others on the Negro there. Oakley C. Johnson, who writes regularly for Political Affairs, has one article in the book, "Marxism and the Negro Freedom Stuggle," but this seems to have slipped in since it appeared in the Journal of Human Relations published at Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio. There is just one article listed from Science and Society: Victor Perlo's "Trends in the Economic Status of the Negro People" published in the Spring 1952 number. All

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