Volume 17, Issue 2. 1986

Themes:

Bulletin's 20th anniversary celebration; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; racism; white supremacy; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); racist symbols; Black churches; affirmative action; Civil Rights

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Anne Braden, Eloise Greenfield, Sonia Nieto, Donnarae MacCann, Jan M. Goodman, Karen Mantlo, Geraldine L. Wilson, Albert V. Schwartz, Kate Shackford, Carole M. Martin, Patricia B. Campbell, Emily Strauss Watson, Ashley Pennington, Michael E. Grafton, Emily Leinster, Betty Bacon, Dinah Eppel

Materials Reviewed:

Issues in American History: The Worker in America by Jane Claypool. Amazon / WorldCat
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Caron Lee Cohen. Amazon / WorldCat
African Images: A Look at Animals in Africa by Dorcas MacClintock. Amazon / WorldCat
Rose Blanche by Christopher Gallaz. Amazon / WorldCat
All But the Right Folks by Joan Kane Nichols. Amazon / WorldCat
Margaret Thatcher: Britain's "Iron Lady" by Doris Faber. Amazon / WorldCat
Why Me? by Ellen Conford. Amazon / WorldCat
Dyslexia: Understanding Reading Problems by John Savage. Amazon / WorldCat
The Oval Amulet by Lucy Cullyforth Babbitt. Amazon / WorldCat
The Good Thoughts Series by Jane Hoober and Marilyn Peifer Nolt. Amazon / WorldCat
What if They Saw Me Now? by Jean Ure. Amazon / WorldCat
Vol. 1: The Black Achievers Coloring Book by Mary Russell and Charles Russell. Amazon / WorldCat
Vol. 2: The Black Achievers Activity Book by Mary Russell and Charles Russell. Amazon / WorldCat
First Your Penny by Donna Hill. Amazon / WorldCat
Journey to Almost There by JoAnn Bren Guernsey. Amazon / WorldCat
Anti-Semitism: A Modern Perspective by Caroline Arnold and Herma Silverstein. Amazon / WorldCat
Betty Friedan: A Voice for Women's Rights by Milton Meltzer. Amazon / WorldCat
Shadows on the Pond by Alison Cragin Herzig. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions by Haki Madhubuti
Black Children: Their Roots, Culture and Learning Styles by Janie E. Hale
Illiterate America by Jonathon Kozol
American revisited by Frances FitzGerald
The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by Amos N. Wilson
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Keywords:

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Bradford Chambers, Christine Choy, racism, Louisville, Black, white supremacy, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), racist symbols, Black church, affirmative action, Civil Rights, oppression, National Education Association (NEA), National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN), militarism, sexism, economic injustice, homophobia, South Africa, publishing, authors of color, people of color, Beryle Banfield, publishing - whiteness, New York Public Library, book lists, censorship, First Amendment, Sterling Brown, Ruth Rausen, Latino, African American, red-baiting, communism, handicapism, elitism, Bilingual School, Puerto Rican, assimilation, stereotypes, diversity, solidarity, income inequality, poverty, bilingual, Lau v. Nichols, research, nationalism, William Bennett, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Commission, National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, Haki Madhubuti, Don L. Lee, Third World Press, Institute of Positive Education, acculturation, Richard Wright, Hawthorne, Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Native American, Hispanic, integration, segregation, mass media, anti-intellectualism, computers, technology, critical education, critical thinking, socialism, capitalism, literacy, Black publishers, funding, Nguzo Saba, Seven Principles of Blackness, New Concept Development Center, African-American Book Center, Nation Studies, Nation Studies Music Series, African-American Art Gallery, African-American Film Project, Title IX, discrimination, sexism, gender, The Civil Rights Restoration Act, Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEA), Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), Jennifer Tucker, Theresa Cusick, peace, Eden Theological Seminary, Institute for Peace and Justice of St. Louis, Joe Holland, Center of Concern, Allen O. Miller, Margaret Collins, Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), Janice Yee, The Color Purple, mass media, Quincy Jones, Japanese, Gung Ho, Women of Power, International Association of Black and White Men Together, Gerald L. Mallon, Martin Luther King Jr., Clergy and Laity Concerned, National Central America Health Rights Network, Celebrate Women, Institute for Responsive Education, Everyone's Books, Riverside Church Disarmament Program, Cinema Guild, films, Black Rose Books, Bread and Roses, Oryx Press