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FREEDOMWAYS
FIRST QUARTER 1968

$2.25 (paper). (A reprint of a book first published in 1983 which has been through many printings.)

Johnson, Willian M. THE HOUSE ON CORBETT STREET. New York: William Frederick Press. 311 pp. $4.50 (paper). (The author is a Negro; he studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Indiana; he lives in Indianapolis. This is a novel of Negro stirrings amid discontent.)

Jones, Edward Allen. A CANDLE IN THE DARK: A HISTORY OF MOREHOUSE COLLEGE. Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press. $5.95. (This is the first book-length history, I think, of Morehouse College since Benjamin Brawley's History of Morehouse College published in 1917.)

Jones, LeRoi. BLACK MUSIC. New York: Willian Morrow, 221 pp. $5.00. (Another book by a prolific Negro author about today's young jazz musicians.)

Jones, LeRoi. TALES. New York: Grove Press, 132 pp. $4.50. (Sixteen provocative, powerful, bitter stories about the black man's search for a black America. They are a kind of graph of Jones's thought over the past six or seven years.)

Kaplan, Edith. VOICES OF THE REVOLUTION. An anthology of poems with historical notes edited by Helen Haynes. Preface by Bayard Rustin. The Author, 226 South 16th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102. 15 color woodcuts. $85.00. (The American Negro Revolution which began in 1954 is commemorated in this work. To be reviewed in the Spring 1968 issue of FREEDOMWAYS.)

Katz, William L. EYEWITNESS: THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Pitman Publishing Corp., 20 E. 46th St., New York 10017. 554 pp.; illus. $9.75. (Katz, a high school teacher in Hartsdale, N.Y., has written for Saturday Review and Negro History Bulletin. This big, voluminous documentary [with introductory narration] of eye-witness accounts from letters, army records, travel accounts, magazines and other sources covering every period of American history from the early explorers to the present was prepared over a period of 12 years. Should be very useful to teachers of American history. Will be reviewed by Howard N. Meyer in the next number of FREEDOMWAYS.)

Kohl, Herbert. 36 CHILDREN. New York: New American Library. 227 pp. Illustrations by Robert George Jackson 3d. $5.00. (A book about Harlem schools similar to Jonathan Kozal's book about Boston schools, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public School, 1967.)

Lee, Don L. BLACK PRIDE. Broadside Press, 12651 Old Mill Place, Detroit, Mich. $1.00 (paper). (A second volume of poetry by an Afro-American; his first volume was Think Black.)

Lerner, Gerda. THE GRIMKE SISTERS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA: REBELS AGAIST SLAVERY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xiv; 479 pp. $6.95. (A book about Sarah and Angelina Grimke, southern white women who became Abolitionists and fighters for women's rights. When they discovered two Negro nephews Francis and Archibald Grimke [sons of their brother and a slave woman] after the Civil War, they welcomed the young men into the

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