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these men of all charges in the fall of 1972 not individually but en masse. This was a political gesture by the Nixon Administration after black Congressman Augustus Hawkins of California put his staff to work on the leads in Weaver's book. But, as Weaver said, these black soldiers should not have been discharged en masse in the first place. Each soldier's case should have been considered separately.)
Lester, Julius. TWO LOVE STORIES. New York: Dial Press. 180 pages. $4.95. (These are simple stories about youth for young people. Lester is not a serious fiction writer. I don't think that he thinks of himself in this way. He hasn't bothered to learn the craft of fiction. Another recent book by Lester is The Knee-High Man and Other Tales.)
Lightfoot, Claude M. RACISM AND HUMAN SURVIVAL: LESSONS OF NAZI GERMANY FOR TODAY'S WORLD. New York: International Publishers. 287 pages. $1.50 (paper). (Lightfoot, a Black Communist leader, is also the author of Black Power and Liberation: A Communist View [1967], Ghetto Rebellion to Black Liberation [1968] and Black America and the World Revolution [1970].)
Linde, Shirley Motter. SICKLE CELL: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT. Pavilion Publishing Co., 520 E. 77 St., New York 10021. 187 pages. $2.00 (paper).
Lovell, Jr., John. BLACK SONG: THE FORGE AND THE FLAME. New York: Macmillan. 686 pages. $15.00. (Lovell, a professor and long-time black authority on black music, has written a definitive book on the evolution and development of the black spiritual of which about 6,000 remain today.)
Madgett, Naomi Long. PINK LADIES IN THE AFTERNOON. Lotus Press, P.O. Box 601, College Park St., Detroit, Mich. 48221. 63 pages. $2.00 (paper). (This is the Black woman writer Naomi Madgett's fourth book of poetry. Star by Star [1965, 1970] was her last book. Miss Madgett is associate professor of English at Eastern Michigan University.)
Mayfield, Julian (editor). TEN TIMES BLACK. New York: Bantam Books. 149 pages. $.95 (paper). (The ten Black writers included in this book are Evan K. Walker, Hank Gay, Sam Greenlee, N. Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Sandra Drake, Rosa Guy, Barbara Woods, Clarence Major and Mayfield. Mayfield is residing and working in Guyana and is currently working on his autobiography. He published three novels earlier.)
Meier, Matt S. and Feliciano Rivera. THE CHICANOS: A HISTORY OF MEXICAN AMERICANS. New York: Hill and Wang. $8.95 (cloth); $2.45 (paper). (A pamphlet Toward Chicano Liberation is published by New Outlook Publishers, 32 Union Square East, Room 801, New York 10003. 24 pages. $.40.)
Meriwether, Louise. THE FREEDOM SHIP OF ROBERT SMALLS. Illustrated by Lee Jack Mortin. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall. $4.50. (This is a children's book. Miss Meriwether is the Black author of the novel Daddy Was a Number Runner [1970]. Lee Jack Morton is a Black illustrator whose work has appeared in FREEDOMWAYS. Other black biographies for children are June Jordan's Fannie Lou Hamer, Tobi Tobia's Marian Anderson, Arnold Adoff's Malcolm X [all by Crowell] and Montrew Dunham's Langston Hughes: Young Black Poet [Bobbs-Merrill].)
Miller, Wayne Charles (editor). A GATHERING OF GHETTO WRITERS-

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