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FREEDOMWAYS
FIRST QUARTER 1972

U.S. is just as responsible for South African atrocities against black Africans as the South African government. South Africa cannot exist without U.S. investments.)

Porambo,Ron. NO CAUSE FOR INDICTMENT: AN AUTOPSY OF NEWARK. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 398 pages. $8.95. (A book by a white newspaper reporter about the 1967 Newark, N.J., riot including the police murders during the riot. Also the political and police corruption that led up to the riot. This author found eyewitnesses to the shootings during the riot in which 26 mostly Blacks died. He tried to obtain autopsy photographs of Blacks shot in the riot to use to illustrate his book. Porambo has been shot at but not hit from a car and later wounded in both thighs by a gunman since his book was published.)

Porter, Dorothy (editor). EARLY NEGRO WRITING 1760-1837. Boston: Beacon Press. xiii; 658 pages. $20.00. (Mrs. Porter, long-time curator of the Moorland-Spingarn Collection At Howard University and an authority on early black writing, has collected in this big book the Blacks’ early efforts to describe their wretched condition and their desires for citizenship rights. The book is a revelation to most people who have no idea that Blacks wrote so much so early.)

Quarles, Benjamin. BLACK HISTORY’S DIVERSIFIED CLIENTELE. The Second Annual Rayford W. Logan Lecture of the Department of History, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 26 pages. (paper) (This lecture was delivered May 4, 1971. The First or Inaugural Annual Lecture, George Washington Williams and Africa by John Hope Franklin, delivered May 7, 1970, has also been published with an appreciation of Rayford W. Logan. Orlando Patterson, a black Ph.D. now at Harvard University, has written “Rethinking Black History” [Harvard Educational Review, Aug. 1971] in which, under the guise of examining the sociology of black historical knowledge which he finds deficient on all counts, he has contempt and disdain for the whole idea of real Black progress and denigrates all black historians and scholars whatever their approach to black history-Woodson, Frazier, Franklin, Wesley, Lorenzo Turner and West Indian believers in negritude. Like Duberman, Woodward, Hofstadter, Genovese and other liberal white historians, Patterson emphasizes folklore, art and psychology, [the cultural] in history and denies that Blacks had heroes and conquered like the whites.)

Randall, Dudley (editor.) THE BLACK POETS. New York: Bantam Books. xxvi; 354 pages. $1.65 (paper). (This book lays fairly valid claims to being at least a partially definitive anthology in that it presents the full range of black American poetry from the slave songs to the present day. One could quarrel with the amount of space allowed each poet in proportion to that allowed the others. Some poets are left out due to space problems I suppose. There are no biographical notes on the poets. There are very useful lists of black poetry publishers, periodicals, phonographs, records, tapes and films. Randall is a black poet, the director of Broadside Press in Detroit and visiting professor of black poetry at the University of Michigan.)

Reddick, Laurence D. THE ESSENCE OF OIC. U.S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C.) About Rev. Leon Sullivan's Opportunities Industrialization Center,

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