Volume 3, Issue 1. 1970

Themes:

Black experience; NAACP book list (books for children: Black and White); storytellers; minority publishing; minority printing; white supremacy; Mexican American stereotypes; Chicano movement; historical misrepresentation and suppression; Black poets and writers

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Rae Alexander, Arnold Hinton (photos), Albert V. Schwartz

Materials Reviewed:

Sounder by William H. Armstrong. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Bimby by Peter Burchard
Canalboat to Freedom by Thomas Fall
Member of the Gang by Barbara Rinkoff
There was Once a Slave by Shirley Graham Du Bois
Dr. George Washington Carver: Scientist by Shirley Graham Du Bois and George Lipscomb
Paul Robeson: Citizen of the World by Shirley Graham Du Bois
Your Most Humble Servant: the Story of Benjamin Banneker by Shirley Graham Du Bois
The Story of Pocahontas by Shirley Graham Du Bois
John Baptiste Pointe De Sable: Founder of Chicago
Booker T. Washington: Educator of Hand and Heart by Shirley Graham Du Bois
Chicano: 25 Pieces of a Chicano Mind by Albelardo Delgardo
History of Pan-African Revolt by C. L. R. James
Race in Literature and Society by Rebecca C. Barton
Drugs: What They Are, How They Look, What They Do by Frank Ganon and Jorge Hardison
Song of a Prisoner by Okot p'Bitek
Two Plays by Douglas Turner Ward

Keywords:

Black experience, self-esteem, NAACP book list (books for children: Black and White), selection criteria (book list), Shirley Graham Du Bois, storytellers, community action program, library, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Leo Carty, Tom Feelings, George Ford, Don Robertson, George Wilson Jr., Joyce Carty, Muriel Feelings, Nikki Giovanni, Jeannene Gosey, Miguel Ortiz, Dorothy Robertson, Margueritta Rouette, Frances Wilson, Pura Belpre, Peri Thomas, Harriett Brown, minority recruitment - publishing, minority publishing,minority printing, Sharon Bell Mathis, Leo Carty, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Virginia Cox, Margot S. Webb, book lists, information clearing house, white supremacy, Chicano publishing, El Barrio Publishing Co., Eskimo, teaching in own language, Black publishing, Buckingham Learning, Emerson Hall, The Third Press, Oswald White, Drum and Spear, Alfred Prettyman, New Dimensions, Joseph Okpaku, Mexican American stereotypes, Chicano movement, Eleanor Fogelson, Virginia Rice, textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, hi-lo, South, Black poets and writers, Galen Williams, material support-publishing, Adalberto Ortiz, Chris Acemandese Hall, George Mitchell