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RECENT BOOKS 

ERNEST KAISER

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

THE NEGRO IN THE U.S.

Barbour, Floyd B. (editor). THE BLACK POWER REVOLT. Porter Sargent Publishers, 11 Beacon St., Boston Mass. 02108. 250 pp. $5.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (A book which brings together the many viewpoints on black power today. Also some historical views of black power.)

Bennett, Jr., Lerone. BLACK POWER USA: THE HUMAN SIDE OF RECONSTRUCTION 1867-1877. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co. 401 pp. $6.95. (This book was serialized earlier in Ebony magazine. Other books by Bennett are Before the Mayflower, The Negro Mood, Confrontation: Black and White and What Manner of Man, a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Bernard, Jacqueline. JOURNEY TOWARD FREEDOM: THE STORY OF SOJOURNER TRUTH. New York: W. W. Norton. xii; 265 pp., illus. $4.50. (A biography of Sojourner Truth for young people. Another recent biography is Hertha Pauli’s Her Name Was Sojourner Truth, 1962.)

Berwanger, Eugene H. THE FRONTIER AGAINST SLAVERY: WESTERN ANTI-NEGRO PREJUDICE AND THE SLAVERY EXTENSION CONTROVERSY. Urbana & Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. 176 pp. $5.95.

Carmichael, Stokely and Hamilton, Charles V. BLACK POWER: THE POLITICS OF LIBERATION IN AMERICA. New York: Random House. 198 pp. $4.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (Co-author Hamilton, a Negro, is chairman of the Department of Political Science at Roosevelt College, Chicago.)

Claspy, Everett. THE NEGRO IN SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN: NEGROES IN THE NORTH IN A RURAL ENVIRONMENT. The Author, 440 E. Division St., Dowagiac, Michigan. 112 pp. $2.00 (paper).

Cottrell, John. MUHAMMAD ALI, WHO ONCE WAS CASSIUS CLAY. New York: Funk and Wagnalls. $5.95. (The fourth biography of Muhammad Ali. The others are Jack Olsen’s Black is Best: The Riddle of Cassius Clay [1967], Claude Lewis’s Cassius Clay [1965] and George Sullivan’s The Cassius Clay Story [1964].)

Crouchett, Lawrence. THE NEGRO IN UNITED STATES HISTORY. Diablo Valley College, Concord, Calif. 44 pp. (A bibliography of books, pamphlets, articles on the American Negro.)

Crow, Lester D., Murray, Walter I. And Smythe, Hugh H. EDUCATING THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILD: PRINCIPLES AND PROGRAMS. New York: David McKay. 306 pp. $2.95 (paper). (Murray, Associate Professor of Education at Brooklyn College, was a Negro member of Mayor Lindsay’s old New York City Civilian Review Board. Smythe, a Negro, former Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and U.S. Ambassador to Syria, is now U.S. Ambassador to Malta.) 

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