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FREEDOM WAYS  FOURTH QUARTER 1971

Gross, Martha. THE POSSIBLE DREAM: 10 WHO DARED. Philadelphia: Chilton Books. 204 pages. $4.95. (For young people. About Arthur Ashe, Carl Stokes, Shirley Verrett and others in advertising and other fields.)

Gwaltney, John L. THE THRICE SHY. New York: Columbia University Press. 219 pages. $6.95. (This is a first book by a black teacher in the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University about a Mexican Community.)

Hamilton, Virginia. THE PLANET OF JUNIOR BROWN. New York: Macmillan. 210 pages. $4.95. (A book for children by the black woman author of Zeely, The House of Dies Drear and The Time-Ago Tales of Jahdu.)

HARCOURT BRACE AND WORLD HARVEST PAPERBACKS: Claude McKay's Selected Poems and A Long Way from Home: An Autobiography (introduction by St. Clair Drake). (Drake praises all disillusioned black radicals: McKay, Richard Wright, Harold Cruse, etc. This is small potatoes. No one benefits from this kind of stuff.)

Harper, Michael S. HISTORY IS YOUR OWN HEARTBEAT. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 95 pages. $4.95 (cloth); $2.25 (paper). (A second and important book of poetry by the young black writer and now associate professor of English at Brown University. His first book was Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems.)

Hayes, Bob. THE BLACK AMERICAN TRAVEL GUIDE. New York: Straight Arrow: World. $6.95. (A guide to help Blacks find facilities of all kinds. Hayes is president of The Other Brothers, a black travel association.)

Hemenway, Robert (editor). THE BLACK NOVELIST. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co. x; 255 pages. $7.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). Has two sets of essays: Critical Judgments and The Black Novelist Speaks.)

Hodges, Norman E. W. BLACK HISTORY (in the Monarch College Outline series). New York: Monarch Press: Simon and Schuster. 275 pages. $2.95 (paper). (Dr. Hodges, a black assistant professor of History at Vassar College, has done an outline history of Blacks from early African history to the 1970's. Each chapter has a bibliography for further reading plus questions and answers. There are also many photographs and an index.)

Hollings, Ernest F. THE CASE AGAINST HUNGER: A DEMAND FOR A NATIONAL POLICY. New York: Cowles Book Co. 276 pages. $6.95. (This is a welcome attack on hunger in America which affects millions of Black people. Sen. Hollings of South Carolina shows how our economic system victimizes millions, Black and white; how we have malnutrition, mental retardation, hungry children, few school lunches, federal government apathy and general public indifferences to starvation in the U.S. Other similar books are Nick Kotz's Let Them Eat Promises: The Politics of Hunger in America and Rodger Hurley's Poverty and Mental Retardation: A Causal Relationship.)

Houston, Robert. LEGACY TO AN UNBORN SON. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. $5.95. (Beautiful photographs by a black photographer mainly of the ghetto but also about other social problems: peace, ecology.)

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. HARLEM RENAISSANCE. New York: Oxford University Press. xi; 343 pages. $8.95. (The first full-length study of the Harlem Renaissance, its writers, artists and dramatists by a black professor of History at Columbia University. But this book, like Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the 

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