Volume 10, Issue 3. 1979

Themes:

Black playwrights; Black experience; racism; erasure; self-reflection; self-esteem

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Eloise Greenfield, Useni Eugene Perkins, Ruth Ford, Beryle Banfield, Child Care Resource Center, Evelyn Jones Rich, Donna Lovell, Virginia Wilder, Betsy Gimbel, Maxine Fisher, Elizabeth Martinez, Patricia Campbell, Grey Panther Media Watch Collective

Materials Reviewed:

Poochie by Ted Pontiflet. Amazon / WorldCat
A New Mother for Martha by Phyllis Green. Amazon / WorldCat
Understanding Africa by E. Jefferson Murphy. Amazon / WorldCat
The Creek Indians by Grant Lyons. Amazon / WorldCat
Full Circle: Rounding Out a Life by Martha E. Munzer. Amazon / WorldCat
Don't Forget Tom by Hanne Larsen. Amazon / WorldCat
Janet at School by Paul White. Amazon / WorldCat
Tales of Indentured Servants by Joseph and Edith Raskin. Amazon / WorldCat
My Mother and I Are Growing Strong/ mi mama y yo nos hacemos fuertes by Inez Maury. Amazon / WorldCat
Brothers Are All the Same by Mary Milgram. Amazon / WorldCat
Babe Didrikson, The World's Greatest Woman Athlete by Gene Schoor. Amazon / WorldCat
Tatterhood and Other Tales by Ethel Johnston Phelps. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

African Heroes and Heroines by Carter G. Woodson
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D. T. Niane
The Adventures of Spider by Joyce C. Arkhurst
African Myths by Carter G. Woodson
Agikuyu Folk Tales by Ngumbu Njuri
Fourteen Hundred Cowries: Traditional Stories of the Yoruba by Abayoma Fuja
The Lion on the Path by Hugh Tracey
A Special Bravery by Johanna Johnston
Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story by Louise Meriwether
The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls by Louise Meriwether
The Captain of the "Planter" by Dorothy Sterling
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
I, Charlotte Forten, Black and Free by Polly Longsworth
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Two Tickets to Freedom: The True Story of William and Ellen Craft by Florence B. Freedman
Black Folktales by Julius Lester
Book of Negro Folklore by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds.
Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folktales and How They Came To Be by William F. Faulkner
Black Scenes by Alice Childress, ed.
Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
When the Rattlesnake Sounds: A Play About Harriet Tubman by Alice Childress
The Black Poets by Dudley Randall
Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson
Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers by Arna Bontemps, ed.
All Us Come Across the Water by Lucille Clifton
Growin' by Nikki Grimes
Sidewalk Story by Sharon Bell Mathis
Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Growing Up Small: A Handbook for Short People by Kate Gilbert

Keywords:

authors, librarians, Black experience, racism, Black Books Bulletin, self-reflection, self-esteem, advertising,Black playwrights, Eurocentrism, erasure, African, African American, folktales, Louise Bennett, Ranny Williams, poetry, James Weldon Johnson, Margaret Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sterling brown, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, history, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Highland Garnet, William Still, Charlotte Forten, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, ageism, lesson plans, Catholic Committee for the Aging, San Francisco Commission on Aging, consciousness-raising, Bookshop Joint Action committee, sexism, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), American Council on Education, Mothers & Daughters, National Association of Secondary School Principals, William Tucker Collection, Annette L. Phinazee, Equal Rights Ammendment (ERA), Caldecott Medal, Newbery Award, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, mass media, Learning Corporation of America, Phoenix Films, Tricontinental Film Center, women's history, disability, Parents' Magazine Films, Center for National Policy Review, Black Arts Museum, Commonground Press, Women Make Movies, Asian American Bilingual Center, The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, Women's History Research Center, National Science Teacher's Association, bibliographies, The Feminist Press, Title IX, Dawn McKenzie, Charles Carr