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FREEDOMWAYS                 FIRST QUARTER 1973

by the young southern black woman who wrote Once [1968], her first book of poems and The Third Life of Grange Copeland [1970], a novel.)

Walker, Margaret. HOW I WROTE JUBILEE. Chicago: Third World Press. 36 pages. $1.00 (paper). (The black woman poet who wrote For My People [1942, 1969] and Prophets for a New Day [1970] here tells us how she researched and wrote her great historical novel Jubilee [1966] over the years about her family. Harper's magazine asked Margaret Walker to write this essay and then rejected it in favor of a major section of William Styron's terrible novel The Confessions of Nat Turner.)

Walton, Jr., Hanes. BLACK POLITICAL PARTIES: AN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS. New York: The Free Press. xi, 276 pages. $7.95. (This is a study of Black parties and political groups, historical and current. Other books by Walton, a Black professor at Savannah State College, are Black Politics: A Theoretical & Structural Analysis [Lippincott], The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. [Negro Universities Press] and The Negro in Third Party Politics [Dorrance, 1969].  In his article "Black Presidential Candidates Past and Present" [New South, Spring 1972], Walton does not list Mrs. Carlotta Bass, the late black woman vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1952.)

Washington, Booker T. THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PAPERS. Vol. 1: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS; Vol. 2: 1860-89, edited by Louis R. Harlan, et al. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Vol. 1-x1, 469 pages; Vol. 2-x1, 557 pages. $15.00 each. (Vol. 1 contains Up from Slavery: The Story of My Life and Work and six other autobiographical writings. Vol. 2 has over 400 selected and annotated letters, speeches, articles, and other writings including a bibliography from just after Washington's birth in 1856 to the death of his second wife in 1889.)

Washington, William D. and Samuel Beckoff (editors). BLACK LITERATURE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF OUTSTANDING BLACK WRITERS. New York: Simon & Schuster. 316 pages. $3.95 (paper). (Here are some poems, folk tales, plays, articles, novels, autobiographies, letters and short stories by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Sterling Brown, etc. For teachers. Has questions. Washigton is chairman of the English Department at Howard University.)

Weisman, Leon and Elfreda S. Wright (editors). BLACK POETRY FOR ALL AMERICANS. New York: Globe Book Co. ix, 120 pages. $2.00 (paper). (With photographic interpretations by students. For young people with teaching aids [glossaries and questions] in back of book.)

WELFARE MOTHERS SPEAK OUT: WE AIN'T GONNA SHUFFLE ANYMORE. Milwaukee County Welfare Rights Organization. New York: W. W. Norton. 192 pages. Illus. with tables and charts. $5.95 (cloth); $1.45 (paper). (Introduction by Dr. George A. Wiley, former executive director of National Welfare Rights Organization.)

THE WHAT AND HOW OF TEACHING AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. University of the State of New York, State Education Dept., Division of Inter-cultural Relations in Education, Albany, N.Y. 12224. 1972. v, 75 pages. (This publication was prepared by Edwina Chavers Johnson, a black woman who is chairman of the Afro-American Studies Dept. at Fordham University in New York City. She authored A Guide for Teachers on the Contribution of Afro-Americans to the

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