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Parker, Seymour and Kleiner, Robert J. MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESS IN THE URBAN NEGRO COMMUNITY. New York: Free Press. 408 pp. $9.95. (This 8-year study of a section of the Negro population of Philadelphia is the first large-scale study of the causes of mental illness in a Negro community of a metropolis. There is not enough attention paid to the basic sociological causes of mental illness or the civil rights struggles as a way of letting off steam, relieving oneself of pent-up emotions and frustrations and thus helping Negroes to maintain their sanity.)

Porter, Glady L. THREE NEGRO PIONEERS IN BEAUTY CULTURE. New York:Vantage Press. $2.95. (This book is about the big three of Negro beauty culture: Madam C. J. Walker, Annie Malone and Sara Spencer Washington.)

Scott, Tom. DUNBAR: A CRITICAL EXPOSITIOIN OF THE POEMS. New York: Barnes and Noble. $10.00. (An analysis of the work of probably the best-loved Negro poet: Paul Laurence Dunbar.)

Selby, John. BEYOND CIVIL RIGHTS. Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co. 208 pp. $6.95. (About Russel and Rowena Jellife and Karamu House in Cleveland.)

Sterne, Emma Gelders. I HAVE A DREAM. Illustrated by Tray Sugarcane. New York: A. A. Knopf. iv, 228 pp. $3.95. (A book for young people about the Negro civil rights movement, the history of that movement including W. E. B. Du Bois's role and biographical sketches of Negro freedom fighters such as Hugh Muzak, A. Philip Randolph, Rosa Lee Parks, Daisy Bates, John Lewis, Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King and others. 

Sugarman, Tracy. STRANGER AT THE GATES: A SUMMER IN MISSISSIPPI. Foreward by Fanny Lou Hamer. New York: Hill and Wang. 256 pp. $5.95. (Text about and drawings of the Mississippi summer project of 1964 by the well-known artist-illustrator.)

Saint, Henry L. (editor). DEAR ONES AT HOME: LETTERS FROM CONTRABAND CAMPS. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press. 267 pp. $6.95. (A collection of letters by Lucy and Sarah Chase describing conditions in the federally controlled Negro camps where they had gone from Massachusetts to teach and work.)

Tilly, Charles; Jackson, Wagner D.; Kay, Barry. RACE AND RESIDENCE IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University. 140 pp. $4.50. (How the influx of Negro migrants from the South and North, the whites' flight to the suburbs and urban renewal have expanded the Negro ghetto with its inferior housing and segregation.)

Tunnell, Emlen (with Bill Gleason). FOOTSTEPS OF A GIANT. New York: Doubleday. 238 pp. $4.95. (The autobiography of the former great Negro halfback on the New York Giants football team.)

Vander Zanden, James W. RACE RELATIONS IN TRANSITION: THE SEGREGATION CRISIS IN THE SOUTH. New York: Random House. 129 pp. $1.65 (paper). (A volume in the Studies in Sociology series covering the Citizens Councils, the K.K.K., the Negro movement, voting, desegregation, the changing South, etc.)

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