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RECENT BOOKS    KAISER

KING, JR. Introduction by Samuel Du Bois Cook. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press. xxxviii; 137 pages. $8.00. (Walton is a professor at Savannah State College, Savannah, Ga. Another recent book about King is Jim Bishop's The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. [Putnam's].)

Washington, Jr., Joseph R. MARRIAGE IN BLACK AND WHITE. Boston: Beacon Press. 358 pages. $7.50.

Weinberg, Kenneth G. A MAN'S HOME, A MAN'S CASTLE. Introduction by Haywood Burns. New York: McCall Publishing Co. $4.95. (This is a book about Clarence Darrow's defense of a black man's rights in the famous 1925 case of Dr. Ossian Sweet, his son and nine others in Detroit, Mich. Weinberg is the white author of Black Victory: Carl Stokes and the Winning of Cleveland.)

Weisberg, Harold. FRAME-UP: THE MARTIN LUTHER KING/JAMES EARL RAY CASE. New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey. xiii; 530 pages. $10.00.

Whitmore, Terry (as told to Richard Weber). MEMPHIS-NAM-SWEDEN: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLACK AMERICAN EXILE. New York: Doubleday. $5.95.

Whittemore, L. H. TOGETHER: A REPORTER'S JOURNEY INTO THE NEW BLACK POLITICS. New York: William Morrow. $6.95. (About the black candidates who ran for office in the elecetions of 1969-1970 and the state of black politics.)

Wilkes, Alfred W. LITTLE BOY BLACK. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 155 pages. $4.95.

Williams, Roger W. THE BONDS: AN AMERICAN FAMILY. New York: Atheneum Publishers. xvi; 301 pages. $10.00. (About the family of Julian Bond of Georgia. John Neary's Julian Bond: Black Rebel is another book about the Bonds.)

U Wilmer, Valerie. JAZZ PEOPLE. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 167 pages. $6.00. (Has a chapter on Clark Terry. Another book, A. X. Nicholas's The Poetry of Soul [Bantam] has soul music lyrics by B. B. King, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding and others.)

[[checkmark]] Winston, Henry. FIGHT RACISM—FOR UNITY AND PROGRESS! New York: New Outlook Publishers. 16 pages. $.25 (paper). (Other recent pamphlets are Gus Hall's Racism: The Nation's Most Dangerous Pollutant, Henry Winston's The Meaning of San Rafael [against extreme leftism], Julia Barnes's Why Racism Is Used Against Welfare Programs: Why Workers Should Join Welfare Recipients' Struggles, Bettina Aptheker's The Social Functions of Prisons in the United States and Break the Chains [Ruchell Magee Committee for Black Prisoners, 6561 S. Normadie, Los Angeles, Calif., telephone 758-6701].)

Wolk, Allan. THE PRESIDENCY AND BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. $10.00.

Wolseley, Roland E. THE BLACK PRESS, U.S.A. Ames: Iowa State University Press. xiii; 362 pages. $10.50. (A Syracuse University journalism professor covers here the history, editorial views, directions and future prospects of the black newspapers and magazines, local and national, general and specialized. There is also Henry G. L Brie III's The Black Press in America: A Guide [University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa—$3.00.].)

Woodward, C. Vann. AMERICAN COUNTERPOINT: SLAVERY AND RACE

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