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FREEDOMWAYS SECOND QUARTER 1972

48 pages. $2.00 (paper). (This book is the work of Black prisoners in Illinois and other states including the introduction by black prisoner writer Billy Robinson. Other similar recent books are Black Voices from Prison [Pathfinder Press] by Etheridge Knight and other inmates of Indiana State Prison and Poems from Prison [Broadside Press] by Etheridge Knight.)

Prime, Cynthia Judy. THE SOUR AND THE SWEET: A COLLECTION OF POEMS ON ASPECTS OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE. New York: William-Frederick Press. 85 pages. $4.75.

RACE AND THE AMERICAN ROMANTICS edited by Vincent Freimarck and Bernard Rosenthal. New York: Schocken Books. $12.50. (Selected writings on slavery as part of the Sourcebooks in Negro History series.)

Rawick, George P. THE AMERICAN SALVE: A COMPOSITE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Vol. 1: FROM SUNDOWN TO SUNUP: THE MAKING OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Co. xxi; 208 pages. $10.00. (About Black survival and resistance to slavery.)

Redmond, Eugene. RIVER OF BONES AND FLESH AND BLOOD. POEMS. Black River Writers, 610 Howe Ave., No. 39, Sacramento, Calif. 95825. $2.00. (Redmond is a black Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence in Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State College. Another book of poetry by Redmond is Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars.)

REPORT FOR ACTION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES AND EVENTS OF THE 1967 NEWARK RACE RIOTS. New Jersey Governor's Select Commission on Civil Disorder. New York: Lemma Publishing Corp. xii; 202 pages. $15.00. (Another book on the 1967 Newark riot is Ron Porambo's No Cause of Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark [Holt, Rinehart and Winston].)

Rice, Lawrence D. THE NEGRO IN TEXAS, 1874-1900. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. x; 309 pages. $10.00. (A study of politics, education, religion, family and social organizations. The conclusions are timid and tentative. Some of the author's racism comes through.)

THE SCHOLASTIC BLACK LITERATURE SERIES. Scholastic Book Services, 904 Sylvan Ave, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 07632. $3.00 (cloth); $1.35 (paper) per volume. (A set of ten posters based on each book is $7.50 each.) Black Perspectives (12th grade). The Search (9th grade). The Scene (8th grade). The Black Hero (10th grade). The Journey (7th grade). Major Black Writers (11th grade). All volumes are anthologies of poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction edited by Alma Murray and Robert Thomas. Each volume has brief biographies of writers included. Each volume has an accompanying Teaching Guide which is free with an order of 20 to 39 copies of any anthology and any additional order of 20.

Scott-Heron, Gil. THE NIGGER FACTORY, New York: Dial Press. x; 242 pages. $5.95 (This is Scott-Heron's second novel. Other books by the young Black author are The Vulture, a novel and Small Talk at 125th and Lenox: a Collection of Black Poems.)

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  Smith, Welton, PENETRATION. POEMS. The Journal of Black Poetry, 922-B Haight St., San Francisco, Calif. 94117. $2.00.

  Sorin, Gerald. ABOLITIONISM: A NEW PERSPECTIVE. Foreword by James P. Shenton. New York: Prager Publishers. 187 pages. $7.50 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (A volume in the New Perspectives in American History series. A forthcoming book in this series is Jack Foner's The Black Soldier.)

Stanford, Barbara Dodds (editor). I, TOO, SING AMERICA: BLACK VOICES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. New York: Hayden Book Co. 308 pages. $5.25. (A collections of mostly contemporary black writers' poetry, fiction and non-fiction. There are brief biographies of the writers in the back of the book. Barbara Dodds is also the author of Negro Literature for High School Students.)

Stein, M. L. BLACKS IN COMMUNICATIONS: JOURNALISM, PUBLIC RELATIONS, ADVERTISING. New York: Julian Messner. 191 pages. $4.95. (A book for young people that is very poor. Why don't white authors talk with Blacks before rushing into print with ill-conceived books?)

Stewart, Rex W. JAZZ MASTERS OF THE THIRTIES, New York: Macmillan. 224 pages. $7.95. (Memories of the great jazz musicians of the thirties by the great black trumpeter Rex Stewart who played with Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington. Another recent book on jazz music is Whitney Balliet's Ecstasy at the Onion: Thirty-One Piece on Jazz [Bobbs-Merril].)

Stiller, Richard. BROKEN PROMISES: THE STRANGE HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. New York: Random House. 121 pages. $4.99 (library binding). (A book for young people on  why Blacks have had to fight to enforce the U.S. Constitution and how that fight is important in the struggle for equal rights for women and all poor people.)

TEACHING BLACK: AN EVALUATION OF METHODS AND RESOURCES. San Mateo County Office of Education, 590 Hamilton St., Redwood City, Calif. xi; 92 pages. (Compiled by the Staff of the Multi-Ethnic Education Resources Center, African and Afro-American Studies Program, Stanford University, Calif. St. Clair Drake, the well-known black writer, is supervisor of the project.)

Thornbrough, Emma Lou. T.THOMAS FORTUNE: MILITANT JOURNALIST. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $12.50. (This biography of the black journalist Fortune [1855-1928] is another volume in the series Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies edited by John Hope Franklin. Another book about a black journalist is The Selected Writings of John Edward Bruce: Militant Black Journalist edited by Peter Gilbert and published by Arno Press, New York.)

TOMORROW'S WOMAN. Published by the National council of Negro Women, Inc., 1318 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. (The National Council of Negro Women has published a historical cookbook and other things.)

THE VOICE OF BLACK AMERICA: MAJOR SPEECHES BY NEGROES IN THE UNITED STATES 1797-1971 edited by Philip S. Foner. New York: Simon & Schuster. xv; 1216 pages. $19.95 (cloth); $5.95 (paper). (There are several recent books of Blacks' speeches: The Negro Speaks: The Rhetoric of

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