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RECENT BOOKS KAISER

O'Neill, Daniel J. (editor). SPEECHES BY BLACK AMERICANS. Encino, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing Co. xiii; 274 pages. (paper) (Other similar books are Roy L. Hill's Rhetoric of Racial Revolt, 1964, and Carter G. Woodson's Negro Orators and Their Orations recently reprinted. An analytical book is Marcus H. Boulware's The Oratory of Negro Leaders: 1900-1968 [1969].)

Orleans, Peter and Russell Ellis (editors). RACE, CHANGE AND URBAN SOCIETY. Vol V. Urban Affairs Annual Review. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications. (This book has a good solid piece "The Slave Plantation: Background to Present Conditions of Urban Blacks" by R. S. Bryce-Laporte, the black director of Yale University's Afro American Studies. Bryce-Laporte's critical piece on Elkins appeared in Ann J. Lane's The Debate Over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and His Critics, 1971.)

Padmore, George. THE LIFE AND STRUGGLES OF NEGRO TOILERS. Sun Dance Press, 1520 N. Crescent Heights, Hollywood, Calif. 90046. 126 pages. $7.50. (This is a reprint of a book first published in 1931. It is a hard-hitting book on black workers and their struggles in many countries in Africa, the West Indies and Latin America and in the U.S. which still has relevance since conditions in many of these countries haven't changed very much for black workers since 1931.)

Parris, Guichard and Lester Brooks. BLACKS IN THE CITY: A HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE. Boston: Little, Brown, xii; 534 pages. $10.00. (Although Henri A. Belfon wrote a master's thesis [1947] and Edward S. Lewis did a doctoral dissertation [1961] on the National Urban League that were historical, this is the first published history of the National Urban League. There are A. E. Strickland's History of the Chicago Urban League [1966] and P. B. Myers's Eighty-Five Years After Lincoln [1950, 1959], a history of the Urban League of Dayton, Ohio. Parris, now retired, was director of public relations for the League for many years. Lester Brooks, assistant director of public relations for the League, is author of Great Civilizations of Ancient Africa, 1971.)

Peters, Margaret. THE EBONY BOOK OF BLACK ACHIEVEMENT. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co. $4.95. (Has 21 outstanding Blacks from the 14th to the 20th century.)

Pinkney, Alphonso. THE AMERICAN WAY OF VIOLENCE. New York: Random House. $7.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (Pinkney, a black professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and at Hunter College in New York City, is the author of two other books: Black Americans, 1969, and [with Roger R. Woock] Poverty and Politics in Harlem, 1970.)

Piro, Richard. BLACK FIDDLER. New York: William Morrow. xii; 242 pages. $5.95. (The story of a white teacher's fight to produce the Jewish musical Fiddler on the Roof in a black ghetto school in New York City.)

Pomeroy, William J. APARTHEID AXIS: UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AFRICA. New York: International Publishers. 96 pages. $1.25 (paper). (This book shows that the U.S. and South Africa are in a tight economic combine involving very heavy U.S. investments and subsidiary companies and that the

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