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RECENT BOOKS KAISER

Frazier, E. Franklin. NEGRO YOUTH AT THE CROSSWAYS: THEIR PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE STATES. Introduction by St. Clair Drake. New York: Schocken Books. xxxv; 299 pp. $6.50 (cloth); $2.45 (paperback). (A reprint, with a new introduction, of a book first published in 1940, one of a series of eight volumes published in a special series on Negro youth by the American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C. This book is about the personal experiences of Negro boys and girls living in the middle states.)

Gaines, Ernest J. OF LOVE AND DUST. New York: Dial Press. $4.95. (A good second novel by the young American Negro author of Catherine Carmier.)

Gettleman, M. E. and Mermelstein, D. (editors). THE GREAT SOCIETY READER: THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM. New York: Random House. 551 pp. $8.95 (cloth); $2.45 (paper). (Has a section titled "The Black Man in the Great Society.")

Graham, Hugh Davis. CRISIS IN PRINT: DESEGREGATION AND THE PRESS IN TENNESSEE. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press. 338 pp.; illus. $7.50. (An analysis of the editorial response of 150 Tennessee newspapers to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation in education decision from 1954 to about 1967. Graham is Associate Professor of History and assistant director of the Institute of Southern History at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.)

Gregory, Dick. THE SHADOW THAT SCARES ME. Edited by James McGraw. New York: Doubleday. (New book is critical of Negro and white attitudes toward the problem of civil rights. Other books by Gregory are Nigger: An Autobiography [1964], From the Back of the Bus [1962] and What's Happening? [1965].)

Henderson, David. FELIX OF THE SILENT FOREST. Introduction by LeRoi Jones. New York: The Poets Press. 45 pp. $1.50 (paper). (Henderson, a young Negro poet, has been published in Where Is Vietnam? American Poets Respond [1967] edited by Walter Lowenfels and in the anthology New Negro Poets, U.S.A. [1947] edited by Langston Hughes.)

Hughes, Langston and Meltzer, Milton. BLACK MAGIC: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall 375 pp. $12.95.

Jackson, Kenneth T. THE KU KLUX KLAN IN THE CITY 1915-1930. New York: Oxford University Press. 326 pp. $7.50.

Jacobs, Paul. PRELUDE TO RIOT: A VIEW OF URBAN AMERICA FROM THE BOTTOM. New York: Random House. 298 pp. $5.95. (Shows how police discrimination, poor schools, welfare corruption, bureaucratic indifference and political backwardness led to the Watts riot in Los Angeles in 1965. By the author of The New Radicals, 1966. [with Saul Landau], Is Curley Jewish? and The State of the Unions.)

Johnson, James Weldon. ALONG THIS WAY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES WELDON JOHNSON. New York: Viking Compass Book. 418 pp.

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