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(paper). (A useful factual capsule picture and text book which takes up the Negro stereotypes, the ancient African Kingdoms, and some black U.S. history, but focuses on the black movement of the 1960's and black contributions to sports, literature, music, painting and sculpture, theatre, films, dance, science and invention and black participation in the U.S. wars. Wilkman wrote the Negro in the military segment of the CBS-TV 1968 summer series Black History—Lost, Stolen or Strayed and he assumes that U.S. Korean and Vietnam wars are correct; just integrate blacks into them. He never questions the political use of the Congressional Medal of Honor—no black soldier of almost one million in World War II won a Congressional Medal of Honor while blacks got two in Korea and eight medals so far in Vietnam.  This is a valiant journalist's attempt to cover all phases of black contributions, but it is too much for a newcomer to the field. His comments are eclectic and humdrum and at times incorrect; and there are errors. James Baldwin's plays Blues for Mister Charlie and Amen Corner were Broadway productions not off-Broadway. Black Reconstruction is not mentioned as  one of Du Bois's best-known works but The Philadelphia Negro, which is hardly known, is listed. Allowing a special introduction by Wilkins is an attempt to appease him since he has been so critical of the recent, black-produced CBS-TV Black Heritage series. John H. Clarke answered Wilkins quite effectively in The New York Times, June 15, 1969.)

BLACK STUDIES PROGRAM IN REPRINT: LITERATURE OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE. AMS Press, Inc., 56 E. 13 St., New York. (This series has reprints of many early novels by Negroes; books on Negroes in the Spanish-American War and World War I; and some things overlooked by other reprint houses.)

Brown, Jr., Turner. BLACK IS. Illustrations by Ann Weisman. New York: Grove Black Cat Press. $1.25 (paperback original).

Browne, Rose Butler, and English, James W. LOVE MY CHILDREN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York: Meredith Press. 246 pages. $5.95. (This is a story of a black crusading teacher in the South and of her struggle to be the first black woman to get a Ph.D. from the Harvard University Education Department (in the 1930's). Dr. Browne has been a widely known lecturer and educator for many years.)

Bryant, Lawrence C. (editor). NEGRO LAWMAKERS IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE, 1868-1902. South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, S.C. 142 pages. $4.00 (mimeographed). (This is the fourth volume of biographical sketches edited by Bryant, a black professor at the black South Carolina State College.)

Callcott, Margaret Law. THE NEGRO IN MARYLAND POLITICS 1870-1912. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press. xv + 199 pages. $7.95 (This study was begun as a dissertation in political science at the University of North Carolina where the author got her Ph.D. It shows that Maryland's two-party system was established by blacks who were active in Maryland politics just after the Civil War.)

Carson, Josephine. SILENT VOICES: THE SOUTHERN NEGRO WOMAN TODAY. New York: Delacorte Press. 273 pages. $6.95. (A book about the struggle of the Negro woman for dignity and equality in a white racist, basically anti-woman society.)

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