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RECENT BOOKS            KAISER

Brandon, Jr., Brumsic. LUTHER RAPS. New York: Paul S. Eriksson. $1.95 (paper). (Cartoons by the well-known artist whose work has appeared in FREEDOMWAYS, the Manhattan Tribune, the Washington Post and other newspapers. Luther, Right On, Luther, Luther Tells It As It Is and Luther from the Inner City are Brandon's other books.)

Brooks, Gwendolyn. THE WORLD OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS. New York: Harper and Row. 426 pages. $8.50. (Five books in one volume: A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters and In The Mecca [all poetry] and Maud Martha [fiction]. All by the black woman Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.)

Burnett, Whit (editor). BLACK HANDS ON A WHITE FACE: A TIMEPIECE OF EXPERIENCE IN A BLACK AND WHITE AMERICA. New York: Dodd, Mead. $10.00. (A big anthology in which 25 black and white writers, through fiction and non-fiction, describe the black experience in the U.S. from slavery to the present: Julius Lester, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Baldwin, Cleaver, Hughes, R. P. Warren, W. Styron, W. Faulkner, etc.)

Burroughs, Margaret T. G. WHAT SHALL I TELL MY CHILDREN WHO ARE BLACK? The Author, 3806 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60653. (Mostly poetry, some prose, FREEDOMWAYS contributing editor Burroughs is also the author of Moving Deep, by Stephany and co-editor with Dudley Randall of For Malcom, both poetry booklets published by Broadside Press.)

Byron, Asaman B. W. TO BE BLACK IS TO BE EQUAL (=) TO GOD. Asaman B. W. Byron's Studios, 310 East 6th St., New York 10003. 26 pages. $1.50 (paper). (The author is 35 and comes from Trinidad and Tobago. He attended the University of Puerto Rico, Hampton Institute and New York City Community College. He teaches I.S. 201 and directs the Asaman Byron Theatre.)

Cable, Mary. BLACK ODYSSEY: THE CASE OF THE SLAVE SHIP AMISTAD. New York: Viking Press. $6.50. (About the slaves who, in 1837 with Cinque as their leader, took over their ship, killed the captain and were captured, tried and acquitted. Another similar book is David Martin's Amistad.)

Childress, Alice (editor). BLACK SCENES. New York: Doubleday (Zenith Book). xi; 154 pages. $3.95 (cloth); $1.75 (paper). (A book of selections from plays by black playwrights. The editor is the well-known black woman playwright and author of Trouble in Mind, Wedding Band, Florence, Like One of the Family and other works. Her Wine in the Wilderness was published by Dramatists Play Service, New York, in 1969.)

Christopher, Maurine. AMERICA'S BLACK CONGRESSMEN. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. $8.95. (Biographical sketches of 34 black congressmen. Some not very good books of this kind are The Negro in Congress, 1870-1901 [1940, 1966] by Samuel D. Smith and Sixty Years in Congress and Twenty-Eight Out [1960] by J. H. Moseley.)

Clarke, John Henrik (editor). HARLEM, U.S.A. New York: Macmillan. $2.45 (paper). (A revised edition of a book published originally in 1964 by Seven Seas Publishers, Berlin, G.D.R.)

Cole, Maria Ellington (with Louie Robinson). NAT KING COLE: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY. New York: William Morrow. Photographs. $5.95. 

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