BOOKS ADULT LIST Selected by . FOR BROTHERHOOD MARY C. HATCH, Head Librarian, Cen- tral Circulation, The New York Public This list includes books of general interest in the field of inter- Library. group relations chosen from among the many published from J. OSCAR LEE, Director, Department of August, 1964 through July, 196S. They were selected on the Racial and Cultural Relations, National basis of their contribution to the search for community in Council of Churches. the pluralistic society, and for their concern with inter- JOHN LEO, Associate Editor, Common- religious, interracial, ethnic, economic and political chal- weal. lenges to achieve a healthy public order. The llst is the result A. ALTAN STEINBACH, Editor, Jewish of unanimous agreement by a representative committee on Book Annual. their recommendations of the bes~ in the field for children, MARC H. TANENBAUM, Director, Inter- young people, and adults. religious Affairs Department, American Jewish Commiffee. MICHA F. OPPENHEIM, Librarian DORIS VIACAVA, Assistant Librarian, Paula K. Lazrus Library Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. of Intergroup Relations This selection from the complete llst is presented by the publishers named below ADULT LIST For Human Beings Only; A Primer of Iluman Understand- Race Relations in Transition; The Segregation Crisis in the ing, by Sarah Patton Boyle. Seabury Press. $1.25. South, by James W. Vander Zanden. Random House. $1.65. A brief guide designed to further communication and A sociologist tit.scribes and interprets the consequences of clear up common misunderstandings that occur between major chanzes in the South; examines status strains among Negro and white citizens. segments of the southern population and movements bred by these tensions-CiHzens Councils, KKK, and civil rights The New Equality, l~y Nat Heutoff. Viking. $4.95 groups. An analysis of attitudes, actions, strategies and implica- lions of the civil rights movement. Of particular interest arc sections on preferential treatment, educational parks, poverty Steps to Christian Unity, edited by John A. O'Brien. Double- and the Negroes' potential role. day. $4.95. Some of the world's ~zreate~t Catholic and Protestant theo- Nigger, by Dick Gregory. Dutton. $4.95; Pocket Books 75r lo~ian~ and scholars express thcir convictions concerning Compellinz sclbdocumentary of what it means to be a possible steps toward Christian unity. Negro in a pro-white world. The author, an entertainer and civil rights worker, describes his struggle against poverty and discrimination and highlights the double struggle en- Unity in Freedom; Reflections on the Human Family, by Augustin Cardinal Bea. Harper & Row. $5.00. gendered by race hatred. Drawing on the pronouncements of John XXIII, one of Portrait of a Decade; The Second American Revolution, by the outstanding h,aders in the movement for Christian unity Anthony Lewis and The New York Times. Random House. explores in a wise and generous spirit the basis for the one- $6.95 hess and freedom of all mankind. Since the Supreme Court School Desegregation Decision on May 17, 1954, race relations in the U.S. have undergone Who Speaks for the Negro?, by Robert Penn Warren. Ran- a revolution. By taking excerpts from The New York Times anti adding his own incisive commentary to the many dra- dora House. $5.95 matic events which have occurred in the last ten years, the The author, a Pulitzer Prize novelist and Southerner, makes editor-author has compiled a vivid account of the Negroes' this personal report, based on interviews, on all important advancing struggle for civil rights. Negro flgure,; in today's civil rights struggle. CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S I,IST Breakthrough to the Big League: The Story of Jackie "Robin- The Far-Off Land, by Rebecca Caudill. Viking. $3.50. 12-15. son, by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duekett. Harper & Row. A sixteen-year-old girl puts to use her gentle Moravian $2.95. 11-14. training in loving service to those about her and in peaceful The story of Jackle Robinson from his training with the Montreal Royals and Branch Rickey's singling him out for dealings with Indians. She eases the sufferings of her com- the Brooklyn Dodgers. Fie gives full, grateful credit to those panions on a hazardous flatboat journey through the wilder- who helped in his outstanding success as the first Negro player in maior league baseball. heSS. I CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLES LIST Selected by . ELIZABETH ALLSTROM, writer of Chris- tian Education materials for children. AUGUSTA BAKER, Coordinator of Chil- dren's Services, The New York Public Library. JOSETTE FRANK, Director for Children's Books, Child Study Association of Amer- ica. NORA KRAMER, Consultant on Books for Children and Young People, the Bookplan. ETHNA SHEEHAN, Instructor in children's and adolescent literature, St. John's University For the complete Books for Brotherhood list write to The National Conference of Christians and Jews, 43 W. S7§ St., New York, N. Y. 10019 The Halloween Kangaroo, by Mary Lewis. Washburn. $2.95. John llenry: An American Legend, by Ezra Jack Keats. 5-8. Pantheon. $3.50. 6-9. Jerry wanted to be different and chose an unusual costume This Negro folk hero swung his mighty hammer to push for the school tlalloween party. This led to complications the railroad tracks across the continent, demonstrating and amusement. that man's courage is stronger than a machine's power. Magnificent illustrations. Hannah Elizabeth, by Elaine S. Rich. Harper & Row. $2.95. 8-11. This very real ten-year-old never doubts the teachings of Lucretia Mort: Gentle Warrior, by Dorothy Sterling. Double- her family or the Bible, yet many questions puzzle her and day. $3.50. 9-12. often her Mennonite world conflicts confusingly with her The story of a spirited Quaker who never feared to speak school world. The experiences which help her to find answers out against slavery and in favor of equal rights for women. and to know contentment in the blending of her two worlds also permit the reader to enter and enjoy the Indiana Men- nonite community. Mississippi Possum, by Miska Miles. Little, Brown. $3.00. 7-11. In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, A small gray possum overcomes his fear of the river, people 1619-1865, edited by Milton Mcltzner. Crowell, $4.95. 12 and other animals and discovers warmth and security with and. up. a young girl and her family after they are forced into the Contemporary letters, new~papers, books and journals, of hills when a flood overnms the land. the American Negroes' protest against their slavery, reveal- ing the thoughts and suffering experienced prior to the Civil War. North Town, by Lorenz Graham. Crowell. $3.95. 12-15. tn South Town, a Negro family was forced by bigotry and Indian Annie: Kiowa Captive, by Alice Marriott. McKay. persecution to move north, to live in dignity and educate $3.75. 9-12. their children. In North Town, through sixteen-year-old Annie, captured by Kiowa Indians, is raised as their own David's eyes we see the new life-major problems to be daughter. Reunited later with her own parents, Annie de- coped with, pre-conceived ideas that dissolve under actual cides to continue her Indian life as an interpreter and bridge conditions, and terror in a brief brush with the law. the cultures. Jazz Country, by Nat Hentoff. Harper & Row. $2.95. 12-15 They Showed the Way: Forty American Negro Leaders, by Through his passion for jazz, a high school senior from Charlemae H. Rollins. Crowell. $3.00. 8-11. a well-to-do family matures as he comes to know the Biographical sketches of pioneers in their fields-from struggles, both personal and musical, of the Negro jazz-men music and art to science and exploration-demonstrating the who fail and succeed. part that Negro~,s have played in the history of our nation. Continued on page 618 NEWS AND VIEWS orthodoxy index and fourteen percent- age points on the religious knowledge index. 0 0 0 0 0 0 "More than one-third of the COMMON- I[ Newman had been at Vatican II activities.'" On February 7, the college WEAL Catholics who went to Catholic (from an article by John Coulson in the and the Chicago chancery met criticism colleges go to Mass more than once a English newsletter, Search): by issuing this joint press release: "The week. (The clergy and religious who "There, where all the leading pro- administration of St. Xavier College are COMMONWEAL readers have been gressive theologians are assemhled, is amlounced today the re-scheduling of excluded from the tables in this chapter; Newman; and he is in the center of a theology symposium to be held at the it is edifying to know that all forty-four them, being treated not only as their college March 31-April 3, 1966. At a of the clergy and religious in the sample natural leader but as the Doctor of the meeting of Archbishop Cody and a report that they go to Mass every day.) Church he is seen to be. P/~re Congar faculty representative this morning, the It is also worth noting that the and Hans Kiing are waiting impati- Archbishop indicated that he never op- COMSVONWEAL Catholic, who has often ently to interrupt a long discussion posed the symposium, since this was a been accused of being somewhat re- between the Cardinal and the Abbot of matter to be decided bv the administra- bellious against Church authority, is Downside on yesterday's press confer- tion. The meeting resulted from a more likely than the Catholic in the ence, at which the Cardinal had spoken faculty request to the Archbishop for general population to score high on the very freely on the education of the clarification of the apparent misunder- index which indicates willingness to Catholic laity.