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RECENT BOOKS

ERNEST KAISER

(Books reviewed in this number of FREEDOMWAYS have been omitted.)

THE NEGRO IN THE U.S.

Anderson, Margaret. THE CHILDREN OF THE SOUTH. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. 208 pp. $4.95. (About the experiences of a white teacher in newly desegregated southern schools.)

Bennett, Jr., Lerone. BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER: A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA, 1619-1964. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books. 427 pp. $2.45 (paper). (A revised edition.)

Bennett, Jr., Lerone. CONFRONTATION: BLACK AND WHITE. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books. $2.45 (paper).

Blesh, Rudi and Janis, Harriet. THEY ALL PLAYED RAGTIME: THE TRUE STORY OF AN AMERICAN MUSIC. Oak Publications, 165 West 46th St., New York. 347 pp. $4.45 (paper). (This is the second revised and enlarged reprint of a book published in 1950 and reprinted in a revised edition in 1959.)

Brotz, Howard (editor). NEGRO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT, 1850-1920: REPRESENTATIVE TEXTS. New York: Basic Books. 580 pp. $12.50. (A documentary history by the author of The Black Jews of Harlem, 1964.)

Clark, Mary T. DISCRIMINATION TODAY: GUIDELINES FOR CIVIC ACTION. Foreword by Bishop John J. Wright. New York: Hobbs, Dorman. 368 pp. $6.50.

Cohen, Jerry and Murphy, William S. BURN, BABY, BURN! THE LOS ANGELES RACE RIOT, AUGUST 1965. Introduction by Robert Kirsch. New York: E. P. Dutton. 318 pp. $5.95. (The authors are reporters on the Los Angeles Times.)

THE COMMUNITY AND RACIAL CRISES. Practicing Law Institute, 20 Vesey St., New York. $7.50. (Forty mayors, civil rights leaders, law enforcement officers and community relations officials analyze their experiences in explosive encounters and offer their solutions.)

Conrad, Earl. THE INVENTION OF THE NEGRO. New York: Paul S. Eriksson. 254 pp. $5.95. (Shows historically how, step-by-step, the second-class Negro citizen was invented by the white world and maintained by the white power structure.)

Douglass, Frederick (adapted by Barbara Ritchie). LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 204 pp. $3.95. (For young people.)

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