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FREEDOMWAYS                   THIRD QUARTER 1973

(paper). (This is a volume in the Great Men of Michigan series. Another recent book on Joe Louis is Barney Nagler's Brown Bomber - The Pilgrimage of Joe Louis [World].)

Emeka, Maurice L.P. BLACK BANKING. The Author, 5000 Walrond, Kansas City, Mo. 64130.

Faggett, Harry Lee. BLACK AND OTHER MINORITIES IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND. Prairie View Press. ii, 185 pages. (Faggett, a Black professor at Prairie View A. and M., Prairie View, Texas, is co-editor with Nick Aaron Ford of Best Short Stories by Afro-American Writers, 1925-1950 [1950].)

Feather, Leonard.  FROM SATCHMO TO MILES. New York: Stein and Day.

Feinstein, Alan. AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NIGERIA'S AMINU KANO. Preface by Basil Davidson. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. xvi, 299 pages. $9.95. (Aminu Kano is now Commissioner of Health in Nigeria and an outstanding leader.)

Figueroa, Jose-Angel. EAST 110th street. Detroit: Broadside Press. 45 pages $1.75 (paper). (A book of poetry. The author was born in Puerto Rico and is now director of Aspira in New York City. Another current Broadside Press book of poetry is Judith's Blues by the Black writer Judy Dothard Simmons.)

George, Carol V.R SEGREGATED SABBATHS: RICHARD ALLEN AND THE EMERGENCY OF INDEPENDENT BLACK CHURCHES,1760-1840. New York: Oxford University Press. $7.95 (cloth); $2.50 (paper). (Sidney Kaplan’s The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800 [Smithsonian Institution, 1973] has section three, “The Black Clergy” which covers some of the same period and materials as Segregated Sabbaths.)

Gutman, Bill. HANK AARON. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. 88 pages. $1.50 (paper). (A book about the great Black baseball player with the Atlanta Braves. He is now closing in on Babe Ruth’s 714 home-run record. See Newsweek [Aug. 13, 1973] cover story on Aaron chasing the Babe. Other books on Aaron are Henry Aaron’s Aaron, r.f. [World 1968] and Al Hirshberg’s Henry. Aaron: Quiet,  Superstar [Putnam’s, 1969].

Haskins, James. PINCKNEY BENTON STEWART PINCHBACK. New York: Macmillan. xiv, 292 pages. $8.95. (At last, the outstanding Blacks of the Reconstruction period are getting individual and collective attention for adults and children. We have Dorthy Sterling’s Captain of the Planter [Robert Smalls], Louise Meriwether’s The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls, Elizabeth Lamson’s The Gentleman from Mississippi [Hiram R. Revels], Peggy Lamson’s The Glorious Failure [Robert Brown Elliott], Philip Sterling and Rayford Logan’s Four Took Freedom [includes Robert Smalls and Blanche K. Bruce], Emma Lou Thornbrough’s Black Reconstructionists and Henrietta Buckmaster’s The Fighting Congressmen. And now Pinchback. Haskins is the prolific young Black author of seven books and co-author of another.)

Hayden, Robert C. EIGHT BLACK AMERICAN INVENTORS. Reading, Mass. 01867. Addison Wesley Publishing Co. 143 pages. (About Garrett A. Morgan, Louis Temple, Frederick Jones, Jan Matzeliger, Lewis H. Latimer, Elijah McCoy, Norbert Rillieux and Granville T. Woods. Seven Black American Scientists is also by Hayden. Other similar recent books are Aaron E. Klein’s The Hidden Contributors: Black Scientists and Inventors in America [Doubleday], Louis Haber’s Black Pioneers of Science and Invention [Harcourt, Brace], McKinley Burt, Jr.’s Black Inventors of America [National Book Co.] and “Black

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