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FREEDOMWAYS                             
SECOND QUARTER 1972

 Book about the remarkable young black baseball pitcher Vida Blue, winner of the Cy Young Award and Most Valuable Player Award in the American League in 1971. Other sports books are John Devaney's The Champion Bucks [Milwaukee basketball team] [Lancer Books], P. and Z. Hollander's They Dared to Lead: America's Black Athletes [Norton—Grosset and Dunlap], A patronizing book, Jackie Robinson's Little League Baseball Book [Prentice-Hall] Phil Pepe's Come Out Smokin': Joe Frazier—The Champ Nobody Knew [Coward-McCann] and Budd Schulberg's Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali [Doubleday].)

Deodene, Frank and William P. French. BLACK AMERICAN FICTION SINCE 1952: A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST. The Chatham Bookseller, 38 Maple St., Chatham, N.J. 07928. 25 pages. $2.50 (paper). (This is a supplement to A Century of Fiction by American Negroes, 1853-1952 [1955], a descriptive bibliography by Maxwell Whiteman. A similar bibliography is Black Fiction Checklist, 1853-1970 by Corrigan [American Studies Journal, Black Awareness Issue, American Studies Dept., University of Kansas, Lawrence 66044, $1.00. Another bibliography by Deodene and French is Black American Poetry Since 1944: A Preliminary Checklist [41 pages, $3.50, paper] also published by The Chatham Bookseller.)

Dobrin, Arnold. VOICES OF JOY, VOICES OF FREEDOM. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. $5.95. (A children's book about the lives of Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson and Lena Horne—all great black singers. Another similar children's book is D. H. Millender's Louis Armstrong: Young Music Maker [Bobbs-Merrill].)

Durem, Ray. TAKE NO PRISONERS. (Vol. 17 Heritage series) Paul Bremen Ltd., 1 Rosslyn Hill, London NW3 5UL. 24 pages. $2.00 (paper). (Other recent books in this Heritage series of black poets are Mukhtarr Mustapha's Thorns and Thistles and Owen Dodson's The Confession Stone: Song Cycles. Broadside Press in Detroit is the U.S. distributor for the Paul Bremen Heritage series.)

Edwards, Sally. WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. $5.50. (A children's book about a young black slave in Charleston, S.C., during the Revolutionary War.)

Epstein, Edwin M. and David R. Hampton. BLACK AMERICANS AND WHITE BUSINESS. Encino, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing Co. (A collection of over 50 articles on the economic plight of Black Americans.)

Fax, Elton C. GARVEY: THE STORY OF A PIONEER BLACK NATIONALIST. Foreword by John Henrik Clarke. New York: Dodd, Mead. 305 pages. $7.95. (This book is a part of what I called the Garvey revival in a note on T. G. Vincent's Black Power and the Garvey Movement in FREEDOMWAYS, 4th quarter 1971. Fax is an artist and illustrator and the author of Contemporary Black Leaders and Seventeen Black Artists which won the 1972 Coretta Scott King Award of the American Library Association. Fax tells an interesting story of Garvey's life and work. His technique is to identify very closely with Garvey in order to tell the story with feeling. This sympathetic technique leads to a

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lack of criticism of Garvey in some areas and to some distortions. After stating all of Garvey's backward, ignorant views against poor whites, trade unions and Communists and Garvey's pro-capitalist views, Fax quotes George Padmore's anti-Communist book Pan-Africanism or Communism [1956] with approval. Padmore says that Communists have contempt for Black organizations and either try to control these organizations or, if that fails, try to destroy them by infiltrating them. W. Z. Foster's The Negro People in American History [1954], in Fax's bibliography but not used on this point, says that Garvey's militant demands for Black rights in the U.S. were gradually dropped by him; that he focussed more on a mass return to Africa even to the point of offering to cooperate with the KKK and anti-Black southern senators to achieve this mass return to Africa. Also that Garvey's friendly attitude toward the Soviet Union later turned to hatred of that country. Garvey was a petty bourgeois nationalist leader. The Communist Party opposed Garvey's back-to-Africa slogan but supported his fight against imperialists in Africa and for self-determination in Africa and for full rights for Afro-American people. The Party was critical but friendly toward the Garvey movement.)

Feelings, Tom. BLACK PILGRIMAGE. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. 72 pages; illus. $5.95. (Feelings, a talented black artist and illustrator of many books, believes that art should help in the people's struggle. FREEDOMWAYS has helped to showcase his work. This children's book is his autobiography. His emphasis on black pride and beauty is good. But his idea that all of us should go back to Africa in uneconomic and incredibly naive. It's too late for that. Blacks must work out their salvation here in the U.S. with whites.)

Fenton, David and the Liberation News Service (editors). SHOTS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE UNDERGROUND PRESS. Introduction by Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale. New York: Douglas Book Corporation/World. $2.95 (paper).

Frank, Gerold. AN AMERICAN DEATH: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND THE GREATEST MANHUNT OF OUR TIME. New York: Doubleday. 467 pages; illus. $10.00. Frank says that there was no conspiracy against Dr. King, but a lot of evidence points to a real conspiracy.)

Friedland, William H. and Dorothy Nelkin. MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN AMERICA'S NORTHEAST. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. xix; 281 pages. $6.95. (Blacks, Puerto Ricans, etc., are working for almost nothing and living in shacks in New York, New Jersey, etc. These workers need a Cesar Chavez to organize them so that they can get decent wages and living conditions. Jan Young's The Migrant Workers and Cesar Chavez [J. Messner] and Carrol Norquest's Rio Grande Wetbacks: Migrant Mexican Workers [University of New Mexico Press] are other books on the subject.)

Froman, Robert. RACISM. New York: Delacorte Press. 157 pages. $4.95. (An important book for young people. Before discussing racism, the author takes up genetics, the biological meaning of race and the physical differences among the races. Then the history of U.S. racism against Blacks. Also racist attitudes toward other minorities. With a bibliography for further reading.)

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