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FREEDOMWAYS FOURTH QUARTER 1972

native-born Puerto Rican, writes about group struggle in the ethnic ghetto.)

Ross, B. Joyce. J. E. SPINGARN AND THE RISE OF THE NAACP. New York: Atheneum Publishers. 320 pages. $10.00 (J.E. Spingarn was chairman of the NAACP's Board of Directors and later president until his death. The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is named for and endowed by J.E. Spingarn, brother of the late Arthur B. Spingarn, another long-time president of the NAACP from 1939 to 1966. Miss Ross is a member of the Department of History faculty at Standford University.)

Salisbury, Harrison E. THE ELOQUENCE OF PROTEST: VOICES OF THE 70'S. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. $7.95 (cloth); $3.95 (paper).

Schevigny, Paul. COPS AND REBELS: A STUDY OF PROVOCATION. New York: Pantheon Books. $7.95. (A lawyer for the Black Panthers tells here of police attempts to infiltrate the organization.)

Schnore, Leo F. CLASS AND RACE IN CITIES AND SUBURBS. Chicago: Markham Publishing Co. xiii, 106 pages.

Sloan, Irving. THE NEGRO IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS. American Federation of Teachers, 1012-14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 2005. (This 1972 edition is the fourth edition of a study prepared originally in 1966. The first three editions criticized junior and a senior high school history textbooks for either ignoring or giving a distorted view of American Blacks. In this fourth edition, Sloan says that now the school history textbooks are treating Blacks fairly in many areas although most of these texts could be improved. The NAACP questions Sloan's idea that this history textbook problem has been solved although it admits that some improvement has been made in the availability and quality of the school textbooks.)

THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1971. Current Population Reports, Series P-23, No. 42; iv, 164 pages. Issued July 1972. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Social and Economic statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census. Obtainable from Supt. of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. $1.25 (paper). (This is the latest edition of this social and economic study of the Black population which is issued annually.)

Sowell, Thomas. BLACK EDUCATION: MYTHS AND TRAGEDIES. New York: David McKay Co. x, 338 pages. $6.95. (An autobiography and critique of black education by a Black professor.)

STARTING OUT RIGHT: CHOOSING BOOKS ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: PRESCHOOL THROUGH THIRD GRADE. Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction. Division for Administrative Services, Wisconsin Hall, 126 Langdon St., Madison, Wisc. 53702. viii, 96 pages. Free. (This book with its long bibliography, with critical, evaluative annotations, has long been needed. Indians have evaluated children's books about Indians; here several Black and white editors really evaluate children's books about Blacks in terms of stereotypes, attitudes, lack of clarity, sentimentality, fantasy, etc. Since writers of children's books often idealize and have limited knowledge of their subjects and people, especially the Black experience, this bibliography which includes books about Africa is especially needed. The publisher's note apologizing for and disclaiming support of all views expressed is unnecessary. Often literary craftsmanship is used to put over a view or an attitude

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