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Downie, Jr., Leonard. JUSTICE DENIED: THE CASE FOR REFORM OF THE COURTS. New York: F. A. Praeger. $6.95. (An examination of the U.S. courts system and how the poor, black and white, never get justice.)

Du Bois, Shirley Graham. HIS DAY IS MARCHING ON: A MEMOIR OF W. E. B. Du BOIS. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 384 pages. $6.95. (Mrs. Du Bois, the author of eight other books, was a founding editor of FREEDOMWAYS in 1961 and has contributed articles and reviews to FREEDOMWAYS and many other magazines over her long career as a writer. This is her first book since her Booker T. Washington in 1955. Here she traces her relations with Du Bois from a young girl through her adult life, her relations with Du Bois from a young girl through her adult life, her marriage to him in 1951 after his first wife died and his work and death in Ghana in 1963. All of Du Bois' struggles over the decades are here. Some important Black names are missing. Perhaps if Mrs. Du Bois had done this well-written and very interesting memoir in the U.S. instead of in Cairo, Egypt, she would have had access to the Du Bois papers as well as published writings which would have aided her memory and helped her make her reminiscences more compete.)

Duff, J, and P. Mitchell (editors). THE NAT TURNER REBELLION: THE HISTORICAL EVENT AND THE MODERN CONTROVERSY. New York: Harper and Row. $1.95 (paper). (Eric Foner is  doing a similar book on the Nat Turner slave revolt for Prentice-Hall.)

Dunbar, Tony. OUR LAND TOO. New York: Pantheon Books. $5.95. (Shows what should be obvious but isn't that poor whites are driven apart by the white power structure so that each group can be exploited better separately; that the interest of poor Blacks and poor whites are the same and their enemies also are the same.)

EBONY PICTORIAL HISTORY OF BLACK AMERICA: Vol. I-AFRICAN PST TO THE CIVIL WAR; Vol. II-RECONSTRUCTION TO SUPREME COURT DECISION 1954; Vol. III-CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO BLACK REVOLUTION. By the Editors of Ebony. Introduction by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co. 311 pages, 311 pages, 312 pages. $24.95 (boxed set). (This is a beautifully bound black history. The paper is slicker than that in A Pictorial History of the Black American [Year, Inc] and Eyewitness: The Negro in American history [Katz] and so the pictures are sharper, clearer, larger [in three volumes] and less crowded than in these one-volume histories. An Illustrated History of Black Americans [Franklin and Time-life Books editors] has even slicker paper and clearer photos than the Ebony Pictorial History , but the coverage is quite selective and narrow and the text is very bland and "objective". But with three volumes, the Ebony Pictorial History can really cover a lot of ground. And it does. There ae many familiar pictures here, but these three volumes have drawn photos from many sources and put them all together from the golden age of ancient African civilization and culture through all of U.S. history to the black revolution of today. The result is very impressive, even stunning. This has never been done before for black history. The civil rights movement and the black revolution have never had such extended treatment all in one volume as volume three gives them. The text and captions in these volumes are pretty strong but quite inaccurate in

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