Volume 2, Issue 3. 1969

Themes:

storytellers; prejudice in publishing; language and prejudice; social consciousness

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Margaret Davidson, Bradford Chambers, Jeffrey Newman, Rosa Lee Nash, Margaret Davidson, Ethel Richard

Materials Reviewed:

Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence. Amazon / WorldCat
Oh Lord, I Wish I was a Buzzard by Polly Greenberg. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Sam by Ann Herbert Scott
Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
City Rhythms by Ann Grifalconi
Durango Street by Frank Bonham
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter
North Town by Lorenz Graham
Adventures of the Negro Cowboys by Philip Durham
Rosa-Too-Little by Sue Felt
Barto Takes the Subway by Sue Felt
Rosaria by Susan Thaler
Two Blocks Apart by Charlotte Mayerson
The Spider Plant by Yetta Speevack
The Red Balloon by A. Lamorisse
Curious George by H. A. Rey
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
Cool World by Warren Miller
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
Jim Brown: The Running Back by Larry Klein
Anasi Tales by Harold Courlander
The Coconut Thieves by Catherine Fournier
Tales from the Story Hat by Verna Aardema
Why the Sun was Late by Benjamin Elkins
Langston Hughes, Famous American Negro Poets by Charlamae Rollins
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter
Eyewitness: The Negro in American History by William L. Katz
Langston Hughes. A Biography by Milton Meltzer
Frederick Douglass Fights for Freedom by Margaret Davidson
Black is Beautiful by Ann McGovern

Keywords:

Oceanville-Brownsville, library, storytellers, black is beautiful, Puerto Rican, hi-lo, biography, prejudice in publishing, American Indian, gender, Association on American Indian Affairs, selection criteria (book list), racial and ethnic book lists, book list distributors, Ruth Adler, Franklin Folsom, College Language Association, black studies, UNESCO, language and prejudice, bilingual, Spanish, Nancy Bloch Award, Gold Medal Award, social consciousness, Robert Carter, Alvin Hollingsworth, Robert Louis Jefferson, Leo Carty, Elzia Moon, Lee Jack Morton, Oraston Brooks-El