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FREEDOMWAYS THIRD QUARTER 1969

Werstein, Irving. THE PLOTTERS: THE NEW YORK CONSPIRACY OF 1741. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. viii + 120 pages. (About a witch-hunt that brought death or imprisonment to over 100 innocent slaves and bondsmen after a wave of arson swept the city. The Attorney-General, the Governor and Judge Daniel Horsmarden used all of this to further their own ambitions.)
Williams, John A. SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT. Boston: Little, Borwn. 279 pages. $5.95. (White critics, who to a man can't know Negro life, think that Williams is telling it like it is in his several novels. But The Man Who Cried I Am is not a true picture of interracial marriage and Sons of Darkness is not true to black life either. This pot-boiling, melodramatic book about black-white war, destruction and takeover, is not a lot better than the white writer Edwin Corley's recent phony novel Siege and Hank Lopez's phonier paperback novel Afro-6 on the same subject. All three novels are cashing in on a now popular subject. The more pessimistic and hopeless William's book become, the more the white critics praise him.)
Wood, Forrest G. BLACK SCARE: THE RACIST RESPONSE TO EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUCTION. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. $6.00.
Woodson, Garter G. THE MIND OF THE NEGRO AS REFLECTED IN LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE CRISIS, 1800-1860; NEGRO ORATORS AND THEIR ORATIONS; and A CENTURY OF NEGRO MIGRATION. New York: Russel and Russel. The first two are $17.50 each; and the third is $9.00. (Welcome reprints of old books published in 1926, 1925 and 1918, respectively. Woodson was one of the two giants of Negro history. The other was W.E.B. Du Bois.)
Wormley, Stantion L. and Federson, Lewis H. (editors). MANY SHADES OF BLACK. New York: William Morrow. $5.95. (Forty-two prominent American Negroes in the arts, sciences, business, political, civic and diplomatic fields tell of their struggles, work, beliefs and hopes. The editors are Negroes associated with Howard University.)
Wright, Jr., Nathan. LET'S WORK TOGETHER. New York: Hawthorn Books. 271 pages. $4.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper. (Another book on the U.S. black-white problem by Wright. Other earlier books by him are Black Power and Urban Unrest and Ready to Riot.)
Wright, Sarah E. THIS CHILD'S GONNA LIVE. New York: Delacorte Pres: A Seymour Lawrence book. 276 pages. $5.95. (One white critic called this first novel a small masterpiece. But he can't really know if it's really true to black life. The book seems in large part autobiographical, and it is warm and seems true in fact and feeling. That it distills in its totality the real meaning of black life may be questioned since its canvas is small. A talented writer, Sarah Wright also co-authored earlier Give Me A Child, a book of poetry.) 
  Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. LEWIS TAPPAN AND THE EVANGELICAL WAR AGAINST SLAVERY. Cleveland, Ohio: The Press of Case Western Reserve University. 400 pages. $8.95. (A book about a white Abolitionist.) 
   Young, Jr., Whitney M. BEYOND RACISM: BUILDING AN OPEN SOCIETY. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 257 pages. $6.95. (A second reasoned, programmatic book on U.S. race relations by the executive director of the National Urban League. If only the Establishment and millions of lukewarm whites would act on his proposals. His first book was To Be Equal, 1964.) 

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