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FREEDOMWAYS
FIRST QUARTER 1968

Damerell, Reginald G. TRIUMPH IN A WHITE SUBURB: THE DRAMATIC STORY OF TEANECK, N.J. THE FIRST TOWN IN THE NATION TO VOTE FOR INTEGRATED SCHOOLS. Introduction by Robert J. Havighurst and Neil V. Sullivan. New York: William Morrow. $5.00.

Dawson, Helaine. ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HOPE: EDUCATING YOUTH FROM POVERTY AREAS. New York. McGraw-Hill. $5.95. (A white woman’s experiences in teaching poverty-stricken Negro youth in the Hunters Point area of San Francisco, Calif., under the Manpower Development Training Program.)

DeCarava, Roy and Hughes, Langston. THE SWEET FLYPAPER OF LIFE. New York: Hill and Wang. 96 pp. $3.50 (cloth); $1.50 (paper). (This is the second edition of a book first published in 1955. The second edition is much handsomer than the first. The book is basically the photographs of the people of Harlem by that gifted Guggenheim Fellow Roy DeCarava with a text by the late Langston Hughes woven around them. It’s a delightful, insightful book.)

Dentler, Robert, Mackler, Bernard and Warshauer, Mary Ellen (editors). THE URBAN R’S: RACE RELATIONS AS THE PROBLEM IN URBAN EDUCATION. For the Center for Urban Education. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. xii; 304 pp. $7.50.

Du Bois, W. E. B. THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO: A SOCIAL STUDY. Introduction by E. Digby Baltzell. New York: Schocken Books. xliv; 520 pp. $8.50 (cloth); $2.95 (paperback). (This is a welcome reprint of a big book first published in 1899 and long out of print. This work by the young Du Bois was the first scientific sociological study done in the U.S.—a work so thorough and complete that it has withstood the criticism of forty or fifty years.)

Dunbar, Ernest (editor. THE BLACK EXPATRIATES: AMERICAN NEGROES IN EXILE. New York: E. P. Dutton. 251 pp. $5.00. (A Negro senior editor of Look magazine, Dunbar interviews 17 black Americans living in Germany, Italy, France and Africa who probably won't be coming back.)

Felton, Harold W. EDWARD ROSE: NEGRO TRAIL BLAZER. New York: Dodd, Mead. $3.50. (Another Negro trapper, guide, leader of the Crow Indians similar to James P. Beckwourth. Rose figured in most steps taken in the early West. Book is for young readers.)

Fischer, John H., et al. EDUCATION PARKS: APPRAISALS OF PLANS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND DESEGREGATE THE SCHOOLS. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. 104 pp.

Fisher, Paul L. and Lowenstein, Ralph L. RACE AND THE NEWS MEDIA. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. x; 158 pp. $4.95. (About the treatment of news involving Negroes by the white newspapers, magazines, TV and radio.)

Franklin, John Hope. FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: NEGRO AMERICANS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 686 pp.; illus. $10.75. (This is the third, somewhat revised and enlarged edition of a book by a Negro historian first published in 1947 and later in 1956.)

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