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Hand Side was published by Samuel French, New York, in 1970.)

Perry, Margaret. A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COUNTEE P. CULLEN, 1903-1946. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Corp. xix; 134 pages. (By a young black University of Rochester teacher. Important work on an important black poet.)

Pharr, Robert Deane. S.R.O. New York: Doubleday. $7.95. (This is the second novel by the talented black author of The Book of Numbers. The first novel is about racketeers running a numbers bank in the South. The second is mostly about the lumpenproletariat-junkies, pimps, prostitutes, winos, etc. Can't Pharr think of any psychologically  untwisted, working, struggling black people whom he knows well enough to write about? Or are his experiences limited to the sordid life depicted in these novels?)

Ploski, Harry A. (editor). With Otto J. Lindenmeyer and Ernest Kaiser. REFERENCE LIBRARY OF BLACK AMERICA: Vol. I-CHRONOLOGY, LANDMARKS, AFRICA, WESTERN HEMISPHERE; Vol. II-CIVIL RIGHTS, LEGAL DOCUMENTS, VOTING, ORGANIZATIONS, RELIGION, SLAVERY; Vol. III-LITERATURE, JAZZ, PERFORMING ARTS, MOVIES, MASS MEDIA, PRESS, SPORTS; Vol. IV-MILITARY, ARTISTS, SCIENCE, PUBLIC OFFICE, WOMEN, FIRSTS, RECIPES; Vol. V-POPULATION, FAMILY, LABOR, EMPLOYMENT, INCOME, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION, BIBLIOGRAPHY (U.S. AND AFRICA), APPENDIX. New York: Bellwether Publishing Co. (distributed by Afro-American Press, 13 Boden Ave., Valley Stream, N.Y. 11580). $54.00. Also published in one volume as Afro USA: A Reference Work on the Black Experience and as The Negro Almanac (revised 1971 edition, 1110 pages) edited by Harry A. Ploski and Ernest Kaiser and distributed by Afro-American Press.

Porter, Kenneth W. THE NEGRO ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. Preface by William L. Katz. New York: Arno Press. 540 pages. $15.00. (This is the long-awaited, important collection of Porter's articles in the Journal of Negro History, Phylon, etc., on Blacks-Indians relations, black cowboys, etc., in the frontier days. Other important new compilations published by Arno Press in addition to Porter's and George Marks's are The Selected Writings of John Edward Bruce: Militant Black Journalist edited by Peter Gilbert and Respect Black: The Writings and Speeches of Henry McNeal Turner edited by Edwin S. Redkey. Mungo M. Ponton's The Life and Times of Henry M. Turner [1917] has been reprinted by Negro Universities Press, Westport, Conn. Charles Killian is preparing a book of material by and about Bishop Daniel A. Payne for Arno Press.)

Powell, Jr., ADAM BY ADAM: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. New York: Dial Press. x; 260 pages; photographs, $6.95. (Three books have been written about Powell by Neil Hickey and Ed Edwin, Claude Lewis and Emmett Coleman. Now Powell has written his won version of his fighting, colorful life. Other books by Powell are Keep the Faith, Baby [1967] and Marching Blacks [1945].)

Purdon, Eric. BLACK COMPANY. Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1244-19th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. $6.95. (About the integration of Negroes into the U.S. Navy by the captain of the first ship with an all-black crew.)

Robeson, Paul. HERE I STAND. Introduction by Lloyd L. Brown. Boston:

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