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FREEDOMWAYS FOURTH QUARTER 1972

Expressions of black nationalist consciousness were also much in evidence as shown in the editorial, "A World Movement Among Darker Races Has Begun," in the AME Church Review, October, 1899. 
However, in the end, the class view blacks had of society held the key to the black press's correct interpretation of events. From the bottom of the economic order, they could anticipate and project the notion of a just national liberation struggle. The black press, as Marks shows, were among the first to understand the anti-colonial/self-determination character of the struggle of the Cuban and Filipino people first against Spain, then America. 
Interestingly, the black press predated by nearly two decades Lenin and the Bolsheviks' systematic analysis of the role of imperialism and colonial movements. 
The parallels suggested in the book with today's radical movement are certainly immediate and important. The final value of the Black Press Views American Imperialism must lie in the first-hand glimpse it gives into the real roots of black radicalism. 
Earl Ofari

ILLUMINATING TWO AMERICAN HEROES
JOSH BROWN: THE SWORD AND THE WORD. By Barrie Stavis. A. S.
Barnes and Company, New York. 195 pages. $6.95.
THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED. By Barrie Stavis. A. S. Barnes and Company, 
New York. 157 pages. $4.95.

BARRIE STAVIS, author of both of the books being reviewed here, is an American writer with a social conscience and a sense of the writer's responsibility to truth. Therefore, he is not a popular writer, in spite of being a very able playwright and historian. His plays are mainly about the misunderstood men in history and the meaning in their lives that has been neglected. In four powerful plays with similar themes he has shown new insight into some old subjects that the peddlers of fairy tale concepts of history would like to forget. These are plays about men who had an awareness about the social and moral issues of their time, and who used their lives to project their responsibility toward these issues. The four plays are: Lamp at Midnight (Galileo), The Man Who Never Died (Joe Hill), Harper's 
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