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FREEDOMWAYS
FOURTH QUARTER 1966
Van Every, Dale. DISINHERITED: THE LOST BIRTHRIGHT OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. New York: William Morrow. 278 pp. $6.00. (The shameful story of the U.S. government's enforced moving of about 60,000 Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi in the 1830's. Even today, the Senecas and Tuscaroras [Iroquois tribes] of New York State and Ontario are dispossessed to make way for dams.
Edmund Wilson's book Apologies to the Iroquois [1959] is about this injustice.)
Walker Margaret. JUBILEE. Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin. 497 pp. $5.95.
(Winner of the $5,000 Houghton Miflin Literary Fellowship Award, this big historical novel is by the outstanding Negro woman poet who won the Yale University Younger Poets competition with her book of poems For My People published in 1942. The novel is about life in Georgia before, during and after the Civil War, based on the life of the author's great-grandmother.) Waskow, Arthur I. FROM RACE RIOT TO SIT-IN, 1919 AND THE 1960's:
A STUDY IN THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CONFLICT AND VIO-LENCE. New York: Doubleday, 380 pp. $5.95. (The first half of this book deals with the major race riots of 1919 in Washington, D. C., Chicago and in Arkansas; the second half analyzes the non-violent sit-ins, kneel-ins and walk-ins of the last six years.)
THE WHITE PROBLEM IN AMERICA (A special issue of Ebony Mazagine, Aug. 1965). Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Co., 181 pp. $3.50. (This number of Ebony won an award from the Columbia University School of Journalism.) Williams, Ethel L. BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF NEGRO MINISTERS.
The Scarecrow Press, 257 Park Ave. South, New York. 421 pp. $9.50. (A sort of Who's Who of living Negro ministers.)
Woodward, C. Vann. THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW. Second revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 205 pp. $4.50 (cloth);
$1.50 (paper). (Has new material covering the events of the last ten years since the first edition in 1955.)
Wynes, Charles E. THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH SINCE 1865: SELECTED ESSAYS IN AMERICAN NEGRO HISTORY. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press. 253 pp. $6.95. (Studies by Negro and mostly southern white scholars that are surprisingly good for the University of Alabama.)
Yerby, Frank. AN ODOR OF SANCTITY. New York: Dial Press, $6.95. (A novel about the Christian Visigoths in Spain by the popular, talented Negro author of about 20 best-selling, cheap, sexy, anti-Negro, pro-Confederate books that pander to the prejudiced white American reading market.)
AFRICA
(The West Indies, South America, Europe)
Balandier, George. AMBIGUOUS AFRICA: CULTURES IN COLLISION. Translated from the French by Helen Weaver. New York: Pantheon Books. $5.95.
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