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FREEDOMWAYS                     FOURTH QUARTER 1972 

Clark, Kenneth B. (with the assistance of the Staff of the MARC Corp.). A POSSIBLE REALITY: A DESIGN FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF HIGH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR INNER-CITY STUDENTS. New York: Emerson Hall. 176 pages. $6.95. (Another recent book written by Dr. Clark and his staff [and published by MARC, $2.95, paper] is The Educationally Deprived: The Potential for Change.)

Clifton, Lucille. GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE EARTH. New York: Random House. $5.00 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (Another book of poetry by the black woman author of Good Times [1969] and Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming [1971], a children's book.)

Conroy, Pat. THE WATER IS WIDE. With photographs by William and Paul Keyserling. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 306 pages. $6.95. (A book about Conroy, a white, teaching in the two-room school of Yamacraw, a small island off the South Carolina coast inhabited mostly by Blacks.)

Coombs, Orde. DO YOU SEE MY LOVE FOR YOU GROWING? New York: Dodd, Mead. $6.95. (A book of essays by black writer Coombs who edited two anthologies: We Speak As Liberators: Young Black Poets [1970] and What We Must See: Young Black Storytellers [1971].)

Crouch, Stanley. AIN'T NO AMBULANCES FOR NO NIGGUHS TONIGHT. New York: Richard W. Baron Book: E. P. Dutton. $5.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (A book of poetry by a well-known black poet.)

Daniel, Pete. THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: PEONAGE IN THE SOUTH 1901-1969. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. xii, 209 pages. $7.95. 

David, Jay (editor). BLACK JOY. New York: Cowles Book Co. $6.95. (An anthology of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by Claude McKay, Dick Gregory, Ethel Waters, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Childress, etc.)

Davis, Daniel S. MARCUS GARVEY. New York: Franklin Watts. 179 pages. Illus. with photographs. $5.95. (A book about Garvey for children. Another current book by Davis for young readers is Struggle for Freedom: The History of Black Americans [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]. Mr. Black Labor: The Story of A. Philip Randolph, Father of the Civil Rights Movement is also by Davis, a journalist and special assistant to the executive director of the National Urban League.)

Davis, Frank G. THE ECONOMICS OF BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. Chicago: Markham Publishing Co. 213 pages. $8.95.

Dee, Ruby (editor). GLOWCHILD AND OTHER POEMS. New York: The Third Press-Viking. $4.95. (Miss Dee, the well-known black woman star of stage and screen and a contributing editor of FREEDOMWAYS, has collected here poems for dramatic reading to high and junior high school students. The poems were written largely by young black students in anger and idealism.)

Dillard, J. L. BLACK ENGLISH: ITS HISTORY AND USAGE IN THE UNITED STATES. New York: Random House. xiv, 361 pages. $10.00. (Toni Cade Bambara praised this book in her long review in the New York Times Book Review [Sept. 3, 1972], but Wilfred Cartey criticizes Dillard severely for being deficient and superficial and for praising the terrible racist Ambrose Gonzales [Black Forum, Sept.-Oct. 1972]. Other books on Black speech are David Claerbaut's Black Jargon in White America [William B. Eerdmans] and Clarence Major's Dictionary of Afro-American Slang [International Pub-

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