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FREEDOMWAYS  FOURTH QUARTER 1971

many places. There are many factual errors: Crispus Attucks's picture is used for that of Benjamin Banneker; the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision was in 1857 instead of 1856; Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915, not 1916; Richard Wright's novel Native Son was published in 1940, not 1941; Booker T. Washington was not born in 1863; some say 1856, others 1858; Du Bois was about 28 not 24 when his book Suppression of the African Slave Trade was published in 1896; he was born in 1868; F. Douglass's autobiography did not first appear in 1881; Life and Times is the third version of Douglass's autobiography; the earlier versions are Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass [1845] and My Bondage and My Freedom [1855]; W. E. B. Du Bois did not publish Story of the Negro in 1909; he published The Negro in 1915 and John Brown in 1909; the New York Age in 1887 was just the new name for the New York Freeman; there were also the New York Globe and the Rumor as earlier versions of T. T. Fortune's Age; B. T. Washington's Up from Slavery was first published in 1901, not 1900, William Still is Sill in the Vol. I index and Henry O. Flipper's the Colored Cadet at West Point was published in 1878 not 1889).

Eysenck, H. J. THE I.Q. ARGUMENT. Freeport, N.Y.: The Library Press (distributed by World Publishing). $5.95. (Another racist book arguing that differences in intelligence are genetic rather than environmental and supported by C. D. Darlington, Arthur R. Jensen, D. J. Ingle and W. Shockley. Also attacked as racist by many others.)

Fax, Elton C. 17 BLACK ARTISTS. New York: Dodd, Mead. 306 pages; photographs. $7.95. (Here are profiles of leading black artists in painting, sculpture, graphics and photography: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Roy De Carava, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, John Wilson, Eldzier Carter and many others. Fax, a black artist in his own right, is also the author of Contemporary Black Leaders and West Africa Vignettes. Others books on black art and artists are Black Dimensions in Contemporary American Art edited by Edward J. Atkinson, Black Artists on Art by Samella S. Lewis and Ruth G. Waddy and Contemporary Black Artists in America by Robert Doty.)

Fenderson, Lewis. DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS: OPEN HEART DOCTOR. New York: McGraw-Hill. 128 pages. $4.33. (This is a book about black Dr. Williams for children in the Black Legacy Series. Helen Buckler's Daniel Hale Williams: Negro Surgeon, 1968, is for high school students and adults. Black TV newsman Mal Goode is the general editor of the Black Legacy Series. Dr. Fenderson of Howard University is also author of Thurgood Marshall in the Series and of Effective Expression.)

FIVE BLACK LIVES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF VENTURE SMITH, JAMES MARS, WILLIAM GRIMES, REV. G. W. OFFLEY AND JAMES L. SMITH. Introduction by Arna Bontemps. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. $9.95.

Ford, Nick Aaron (editor). BLACK INSIGHTS. Waltham, Mass.: Ginn and Co. $6.95. (An anthology of poems, short stories, plays, novels, autobiographies, essays, addresses and an interview. Ford is the well-known black critic and professor.)

Foster, Marcus A. MAKING SCHOOLS WORK: STRATEGIES FOR CHANGING EDUCATION. Foreword by Alex Haley. Philadelphia: The Westminster

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