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FREEDOMWAYS                                    SECOND QUARTER 1972
Jones, Bessie and Bess Lomax Hawes. STEP IT DOWN: GAMES, PLAYS, SONGS, AND STORIES FROM THE AFRO-AMERICAN HERITAGE. New York: Harper & Row. xxi; 233 pages. $10.00. (Bessie Jones is Black; Bess Hawes is white. Both are singers. The games and plays in this book are the recollections of Bessie Jones, born 70 years ago on Dawson, Ga., farm.)

Kilens, John Oliver. GREAT GITTIN' UP MORNING: A BIOGRAPHY OF DENMARK VESEY. New York: Doubleday. 138 pages. $3.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (The life of the leader of the great 1822 slave uprising in South Carolina for children. By the well-known black novelist.)

King, Woodie and Earl Anthony (editors). BLACK POETS AND PROPHETS. THE THEORY, PRACTICE, AND ESTHETICS OF THE PAN-AFRICANIST REVOLUTION. New York: New American Library. 188 pages. $1.50 (paper). (Essays by Africans and American Blacks: Fanon, Carmichael, Cleaver, Touré, Earl Anthony, James Forman, C.L.R. James, Ron Milner, Ron Karenga, Woodie King, Larry Neal, Imamu Baraka, etc.)

King, Woodie (editor). BLACK SPIRITS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW BLACK POETS IN AMERICA. Foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Introduction by Don L. Lee. Artistic consultant Imamu A. Baraka. New York: Random House. $7.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (King also edited with Ron Milner Black Drama Anthology [Columbia University Press and New American Library]. He has edited or co-edited three books.)

Lerner, Gerda (editor). BLACK WOMEN IN WHITE AMERICA: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. New York: Pantheon Books. 630 pages. $12.95. (Mrs. Lerner, an assistance professor of history at Long Island University, is the author of The Grimkè Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery, 1967. Another book Notable American Women, 1607-1950 edited by Edward T. James et al. [Harvard University Press, 3 vols., $75.00] has quite a few outstanding black women among its 1,359 biographical profiles.)

Lester Julius. LONG JOURNEY HOME: STORIES FROM BLACK HISTORY. New York: Dial Press. $4.95. (Lester is the young black author of two other books To Be a Slave and Black Folktables for children and young people. He also wrote or edited four other books for adults including the recent The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writing W.E.B. Du Bois [Random House], a big two-volume anthology.)

Lightfoot, Claude and William L. Patterson. FOUR SCORE YEARS IN FREEDOM'S FIGHT. New York: New Outlook Publishers. 16 pages. $.35 (paper). (This is a tribute by Lightfoot to William L. Patterson at the celebration of his 80th birthday in Chicago.)

Mathis, Sharon Bell. TEACUP FULL OF ROSES. New York: Viking Press, $4.95. (A black woman writer's children's book about black and poor children in a large city.)

Mezu, S. Okechukwu (editor). MODERN BLACK LITERATURE. Buffalo, N.Y.: Black Academy Press. 200 pages. $8.50 (cloth); $4.00 (paper). (This book was 

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originally a special number of Black Academy Review. Here 13 professors examine African, Afro-American and West Indian literature and folklore, etc.)

Moon, Henry Lee (editor). THE EMERGING THOUGHT OF W.E.B. DUO BOIS. New York: Simon & Schuster. 440 pages. $12.95 (cloth); $4.95 (paper). (Essays and Editorials from The Crisis magazine edited from 1910 to 1934 by Du Bois. Introduction, commentaries and a personal memoir by Henry Lee Moon, director of public relations for the NAACP since 1948, editor of The Crisis and author of Balance of Power: The Negro Vote plus many magazine and newspaper articles. Moon's anti-Communist bias is everywhere. He does not understand that capitalist exploitation of U.S. Blacks is basic and must be changed radically in order to solve Blacks' problems.)

MULTI-ETHNIC LITERATURE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (Four books in this series are: 1. Multi-Ethnic Literature: Instructor's Guide by William Adams et al.; 2. American Indian Authors by N. S. Momaday; 3. Mexican-American Authors by A. and R. Paredes; 4. Afro-American Authors by William Adams.)

THE NEGRO SPEAKS: THE RHETORIC OF CONTEMPORARY BLACK LEADERS edited by Jamye and McDonald Williams. New York: Noble and Noble. 300 pages. $3.20 (paper). (This book has 23 speeches grouped by themes mostly from the 1960's by Roy Wilkins, Adam Powell, Jr., Ralph J. Bunche, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Martin L. King, Jr., Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, etc. A Teacher's Guide is also available for use with this book-price $1.72. The two black editors are professors at Tennessee State University, Nashville.)

Oliver, Clinton F. and Michael Timko (editors). THIRTY-EIGHT SHORT STORIES: AN INTRODUCTORY ANTHOLOGY. New York: A. A. Knopf. $4.95 (paper). (Dr. Oliver, black associate professor of English at Queens College, New York City, died in May 1972. He edited with Stephanie Sills Contemporary Black Drama [Scribner's] with a long critical introduction in 1971. His essay "Henry James as Social Critic" [Antioch Review, Summer 1947] was used as the introduction to the 1959 Harper Torchbooks edition of Henry James's novel The Princess Casamassima. Oliver was working on a study of American black literature at his death.)

ON QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY: PAPERS DERIVING FROM THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY FACULTY SEMINAR ON THE COLEMAN REPORT, edited by Frederick Mosteller and Daniel P. Moynihan. New York: Random House. $15.00 (cloth); $3.95 (Vintage paperback).

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Texts by Isabelle Aguet. Translated by Bonnie Christen. 170 Illustrations. Editions Minerva, S.A., Genève, 1971. (A European book published in Geneva, Switzerland. Imported, remaindered and sold by Marboro Books, 131 Varick St., New York City 10013, for $2.98, No. 2895.)

POETRY OF PRISON: POEMS BY BLACK PRISONERS edited by Eugene Feldman and Eugene Perkins. Introduction by Bill Hand(s) Robinson. DuSable Museum of African American History, 3806 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago 60653.

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