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A Achebe, Chinua, 209 Adams, Julius J., 198 Adams, Myron, 42 Adams, Russell, 85, 175 Alhamisi, Ahmed, 184 Allen, Pamela, 83 Allen, Richard (bishop), 171 Allen, Richard, 172 Allen, Robert, 83, 194 Amini, Johari, 210 Anderson, I. H., 185 Anukpe, Walter, 209 Anumoya, Amechi, 90, 182 Aptheker, Herbert, 32, 179-80 Armstrong, Mary, 193 Aruri, Naseer, 92, 188 Atkins, Julia Mason, 97, 186 Atkins, Russell, 35, 79, 80, 192 Atkins, Thomas, 60, 207 Aubert, Alvin, 183 B Bailey, Augustus Caesar, 185 Bailey, L. P., 184 Bandelier, Fanny, 46, 106, 191 Banfield, Beryle, 85, 182 Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 89, 212 Barlow, George, 184 Barrett, Lindsay, 83, 194 Barton, Rebecca, 190 Baxter, Daniel Minort, 73, 172 Becker, Sidney, 209 Ben-Gurion, David, 209 ben-Jochannan, Yosef, 81, 177 Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 95, 117, 118, 130, 131, 195, 196 Berry, Leonidas, 130-31, 196 Betts, Charles, 41, 193 Bibbins, Richard E., 176 Billera, Jau, 192 Bjorkegren, Hans, 209 Black, Marion, 189 Blakely, Henry, 184 Bond, Frederick W., 178 Bond, Horace Mann, 94, 181 Boone, William E., 43, 106, 211 Boyd, Jill Witherspoon, 183 Boyd, Richard Henry, 75, 76, 200, 201 Boze, Arthur, 184 Branch, Essie, 189 Brann, James, 94, 181 Brazziel, William F., 83, 194 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 88, 183, 184, 210 Brooks, James W. T., 174 Brown, Frank London, 88, 205 Brown, George W., 178 Brown, J. T., 73, 208 Brown, Jacob T., 200 Brown, Patricia, 196 Brown, R. T., 185 Brown, Sterling, 52, 58, 179, 184 Brown, Sue M. Wilson, 195 Brown, William Wells, 13 Browning, Alice C., 63 Bryce, T. T., 193 Bunche, Ralph J., 34, 197 Bunton, J. C., 185 Bums, Ben, 63, 195 Burroughs, Margaret, 80, 133, 183, 189 Butler, William H. H., 172 Butts, Israel Lafayette, 193 C Cabral, Amilcar, 212 Campbell, Robert, 13 Cannon, C. C., 184 Carroll, Charles, 51 Carter, Eugene, 200 Cartney, Wilfred, 91 Carver, Mamie Jordan, 199 Cerami, Anthony, 209 Cesaire, Aime, 209 Chambers, Bradford, 139 Chan, Jeffrey, 106, 194 Chin, Frank, 83, 106, 194 Chuks-Orji, Oganna, 196 Church, Vivian, 85, 175 Clark, C. H., 201 Clark, Chris, 209 Clark, Kenneth B., 91, 190 Clark, Peter W., 47, 213 Clayton, Edward T., 95, 196 Cleveland, A. E., 193 Clifton, Fred, 209 Clinton, George Wylie, 200 Coan, Josephus, 172 Cobb, Charlie, 210 Cobb, William, 178 Cole, S.W.R., 201 Coleman, C. D., 185 Coleman, Lucretia H., 174 Coleman, Robert W., 186, 187 Conference for the Study of Negro Problems, 180 Cook, Mercer, 178, 180 Cooper, William, 41, 193 Coppin, Levi J., 172 Corbett, Maurice, 201 Corcoran, John Patrick, 47 Craig, H. M., 185 Crawford, George Williamson, 37, 200 Cromwell, John W., 28 Crump, Paul, 95, 195 Cuney-Hare, Maud. See Hare, Maud Cuney Current, William C., 200 D Dabney, Wendell P., 59, 188 Damachi, Ukandi G., 209 Daniel, Sadie Iola, 178 Daniels, George M., 209 Danner, Margaret, 183 Davenport, William H., 71, 175 Davis, Angela, 93, 209 Davis, Arthur P., 83, 194 Davis, Charles, 133 Davis, Monroe H., 174 Dee, Ruby, 93 DeKnight, Freda, 95, 195 Derricotte, Elsie P., 79, 178 Desai, Ram, 90, 181 Dessauer, John P., 116, 120, 125 Dett, Robert N., 193 Deutrich, Mabel E., 194 Diara, Agadem, 87, 176 Diara, Schavi, 176 Diop, Cheikh Anta, 129, 210 Dismond, Henry Binga, 198 Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 54 Dollard, John, 26 Douglass, Frederick, 196 Drafts, Gene, 184 Drake, St. Clair, 210 Dreer, Herman, 60, 207 Du Bois, Shirley G., 130, 209 Du Bois, W.E.B., 26, 180 Dummett, Clifton Orrin, 36, 201-2 Dungee, John Riley, 192 Dunham, Katherine, 209 Dunning, William Archibald, 24 Dykes, Eva B., 178 Dyson, Walter, 45, 46, 194 E Eason, James Henry, 200 Edmonds, Randolph, 178 Edwards, V. A., 211 Emanuel, James A., 183, 197 Embry, James Crawford, 74, 172 Emmet, Thomas A., 94, 181 Evans, Mari, 129, 210 F Farrakhan, Louis, 190 Feldman, Eugene, 80, 189 Fenner, Thomas P., 193 Ferguson, Herman B., 81-82, 107, 190 Ferreti, Fred, 209 Fickland, R. William, 173 Figueroa, Jose-Angel, 184 Fisher, Ruth A., 179 Fleming, Beatrice J., 178 Flipper, Joseph S., 174 Floyd, Silas, 200 Forman, James, 87, 182 Fortune, T. Thomas, 16, 59, 191, 196 Frazier, E. Franklin, 26, 46, 191 Frederick, Helen Burleson, 189 Freeman, Bud, 94 Frickland, R. William, 172 Fuller, Hoyt W., 210 Fuller, Thomas O., 57, 205 G Gaines, Wesley J., 172 Gannon, Frank, 209 Gant, Lizabeth, 209 Garvey, Amy Jacques, 39, 107, 212 Gayle, Addison, 184 Ghareeb, Edmund, 188 Gilbert, Herman Cromwell, 88, 205 Gilbert, Zack, 210 Giles, Lucille, 196 Giovanni, Nikki, 87, 183 Glaseve, Milton, 134, 189 Gordon, Judith, 93, 209 Gordon, Sol, 93, 209 Goveia, Elsa V., 195 Granger, Lester, 202 Grant, John Wesley, 201 Green, Carolyn Jetter, 89, 207 Greene, Lorenzo J., 31-32 Greene, Robert E., 196 Greenlee, Sam, 210 Gregg, Howard D., 174 Gregg, John, 174 Griggs, Sutton E., 202, 205 Guillen, Nicolas, 184 Guzman, Jessie Parkhurst, 43, 44, 211 H Haigler, T. W., 174 Haley, Alex, 131 Hall, Mildred Martin, 58, 198 Hamilton, F. M., 71, 185 Hampton, Arland C., 193 Hansberry, William Leo, 83 Hare, Maud Cuney, 57, 178, 200 Harmon, J. H., 179 Harris, Cicero Richardson, 175 Harris, E.W.F., 185 Harris, Joel Chandler, 51 Harris, Joseph, 194 Haun, Eugene, 131, 197 Hayne, Joseph Elias, 61, 173 Haynes, Elizabeth, 62, 189 Hayson, Maxwell, 206 Henderson, Edwin, 178 Henderson, George Washington, 172 Henderson, Julia L., 37, 200 Henderson, Walter, 178 Hicks, William, 76, 201 Hill, Daniel Grafton, 194 Hill, Robert B., 91, 190 Hill, T. Arnold, 179 Ho, James K. K., 83, 194 Hobbs, E. A., 193 Hodges, Frenchy, 183 Hoffman, Frederick Ludwig, 44 Holly, Alonzo P. B., 201 Holman, John H., 76, 105, 210 Holsey, L. H., 71, 185 Hood, Aurelius P., 75, 174 Hood, James Walker, 71, 175 Hood, Solomon P., 172 Hoover, Dorothy, 174 Hopes, W. K., 172 Hopkins, Pauline, 61, 187 Hubert, James Henry, 197-98 Hueston, William C., 199 Huggins, Willis, 183 Hughes, Langston, 35,203 Hurt, Allen D., 76, 200 I Inada, Lawson, 83, 106, 194 Iroaqanachi, John, 209 J Jackman, Oliver, 83, 194 Jackson, Algernon B., 173 Jackson, Blyden, 209 Jackson, John G., 33, 183 Jackson, Joseph H., 97, 134, 208 Jackson, Luther Porter, 60, 192 Jackson, Mary, 196 Jalee, Pierre, 209 James, C.L.R., 92, 188 Jay, James M., 94, 181 Jeffers, Lance, 197 Jeffries, Richard, 209 Jenifer, John T., 75, 174 Johnson, Charles S., 37, 46, 59, 191, 202 Johnson, Christine, 198 Johnson, Harvey Elijah, 201 Johnson, John Howard, 63, 195, 198 Jones, Faustine, 136 Jones, Gayle, 197 Jones, William H., 45, 194 Jordan, June, 91, 190 Jordan, Lewis Garnett, 73, 200, 207 Jordan, Norman, 210 K Kelly, Frances Burnett, 97, 186 Kenny, John, 43, 211 Kent, George E., 210 Kidd, Foster, 195 King, Helen, 95, 196 King, Lawrence S., 175 Klingberg, Frank J., 179 Kman, Yusef, 82, 190 Knight, Etheridge, 183, 184 L LaGuma, Alex, 209 Laing, Margaret, 209 Lanusse, Armand, 178 Lavitt, Edward, 209 Lee, Don L. See Madhubuti, Haki R. Lee, John L., 198 Levy, D. A., 192 Levy, Lyn, 184 Lewis, Luvester, 210 Lindsay, Arnett G., 179 Locke, Alain Leroy, 34, 179 Logan, Rayford, 46, 194 Lomax, Pearl, 184 Long, Charles Sumner, 172 Long, Herman, 46, 191 Lorde, Audre, 184 Love, Rose Leary, 211 Low, Flora F., 41, 193 Ludlow, Helen, 193 M McAfee, Sara Jane, 71, 185 McBrown, Gertrude P., 57, 178 McDougle, Ivan Eugene, 31, 179 McDowell, Robert, 209 Macebuh, Stanley, 209 McGirt, James Ephraim, 62, 197 Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long, 85, 197 Madhubuti, Haki R., 87, 129, 183, 184, 196, 210 Maglanbayan, Shawa, 88, 210 Major, Clarence, 91, 93, 190, 209 Major, Gerri, 130 Major, Reginald, 209 Marshall, Ulysses, 173 Matthews, Geraldine 0., 65 Mazuri, Ali A., 209 Mbadiwe, Kingsley Ozuomba, 198 Meganda, Bernard K., 92 Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu, 90, 181, 182 Mitchell, Alice E., 208 Mitchell, George Washington, 74, 173 Moore, John Jamison, 175 Moore, Wilbert E., 209 Moore, William, 175 Morris, E. C., 200 Morris, Robert R., 71, 175 Moses, William H., 73, 207 Muganda, Bernard K., 188 Muhammed, Elijah, 76-77, 106, 198 Murray, Florence, 95, 198 Murray, Freeman Henry Morris, 64, 199 N Neal, Larry, 83, 194 Newsome, Effie Lee, 178 Newton, Alexander H., 173 Nichols, S. L., 185 Norris, John William, 59, 176 O Odarty, Bill, 183 Oka, Odincheza, 182 Okye, Felix N., 181 Okpaku, Joseph, 106, 209, 210 Okpaku, Samuel O., 128 Olivas, Michael A., 194 Oliver, Dexter, 129 Oliver, Patricia, 129 O'Neal, Regina, 184 Osborn, Peggy, 85, 175 Osei, G. K., 190 Osuntoki, Chief, 92, 188 Over, David, 201 Ovington, Mary White, 37, 200 Owens, Donn Benn, Jr., 80, 187, 188 P Patel, Hasu H., 209 Patterson, Harry Wilson, 199 Patterson, J. O., 97, 186 Patton, William, 194 Payne, Daniel A., 75, 173 Paynter, John H., 178 Pendleton, Leila Amos, 206 Perkins, Eugene, 210 Pest, Arthur, 209 Peters, Margaret, 196 Pettigrew, M. C., 185-86 Phillips, C. H., 71, 185 Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 25 Picard, Kate E. R., 35, 203 Pius, H. H., 76, 201 Plumpp, Sterling, 210 Poindexter, Hildrus A., 94, 181 Poinsett, Alex, 95, 196 Polackova, Kaca, 209 Porter, Dorothy B., 194 Poussaint, Alvin, 91, 190 Purdy, Virginia C., 194 R Ragland, J. Farley, 198 Randall, Dudley, 50, 183, 184, 197, 210 Rankin, Jeremiah E., 45, 194 Ransom, Reverdy C., 74, 75, 174 Rasmussen, Emil Michael, 198 Reed, Samuel R. H., 201 Reid, Inez Smith, 91 Reid, Ira DeAugustine, 34, 179 Render, Sylvia Lyons, 83, 194 Rice, David L., 131 Richards, Henry J., 90, 182 Richardson, Thomas, 100 Richardson, Willis, 178 Richmond, Merle A., 83, 194 Rivers, Conrad Kent, 35, 79, 192 Robinson, Dorothy, 96, 196 Robinson, Freddie, 176 Robinson, J. P., 201 Robinson, James H., 74 Robinson, William H., 184 Rodney, Walter, 83, 194 Rogers, Carolyn, 210 Rogers, J. A., 86, 206 Roman, Charles V., 174 Ross, German R., 97, 186 Rossburgh, William, 200 Rousseve, Charles B., 47, 213 Royster, Philip M., 131, 197, 210 Rush, Sheila, 209 S Sahagun, Fray Bernardino do, 46, 106, 191 Salter, Moses Buckingham, 172 Sampson, John S., 193 Sanchez, Sonia, 87, 93, 183, 184, 209 Saunders, Doris E., 95, 130, 195, 196 Savage, W. Sherman, 179 Scott, Timothy D., 75, 174 Seaton, Daniel P., 172 Senna, Carl, 209 Shackelford, William Henry, 75, 174 Shackleford, Jane D., 57, 178 Shareed, Edmund, 92 Shaw, Oliver W. See Shaw, O'Wendell Shaw, O'Wendell, 57, 181 Shears, Carl L., 91, 204 Sherwood, Henry Noble, 179 Shockley, Ann Allen, 20 Sibley, Elbridge, 191 Simmons, Judy, 184 Simmons, William J., 196 Simon, Adelaide, 80, 106, 192 Singleton, George A., 173 Smith, Charles S., 174 Smith, Jean P., 196 Smith, Julian B., 185 Southall, Rita, 91, 204 Soyinka, Wole, 128 Spencer, Chauncey E., 184 Spencer, Mary Etta, 74, 173 Steward, Theophilus Gould, 61, 172 Stewart, Charles E., 192 Still, William, 196 Stokes, Andrew, Jr., 201 Stuart, Merah Steven, 58, 198 Sundiata, Phaon, 89 T Talley, M. A., 73, 208 Tanner, Benjamin T., 73, 172 Tanneyhill, Ann, 38, 202 Tapisco, Jacob, 171 Tarnowski, Michael, 209 Tate, Merze, 46, 194 Taylor, A. A., 178 TerHorst, Jerald F., 92, 209 Telemaque, Eleanor Wong, 182 Thomas, James H., 76, 201 Thompson, Gwendolyn, 183 Thompson, John Lay, 59, 195 Tillman, Katherine Davis, 173 Tisdale, Celes, 184 Todd, Walter, 199 Torrey, E. Fuller, 190 Toure, Ahmed Sekou, 89, 212 Townsend, A. M., 73, 207 Turner, Darwin J., 136 Turner, Henry McNeil, 172 Turner, Lorenzo Dow, 31, 179 U Underhill, Irvin W., 74, 173 Ustinov, Nadia, 209 V Vass, Samuel N., 73, 207, 208 Von Doenhoff, Richard A., 194 W Walker, Margaret, 183, 184 Walls, William J., 175 Walton, Darwin, 196 Wangara, Malaika, 184 Ward, Douglas Turner, 93, 209 Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 95, 196 Washington, Elsie, 209 Way, Peter, 209 Wayman, Alexander, 171 Weburn, Ron, 131 Weeks, Richardo, 198 Welburn, Ron, 197 Welch, Isaiah H., 174 Wesley, Charles H., 46, 79, 178, 194 Weusi, Kasisi Jitu, 81, 190 Wheeler, B. F., 175 White, Andrew, 174 White, Charles Frederich, 173 White, Oswald, 184 Whiting, Helen, 57, 178 Weid, Abdillahi Ahmed, 182 Wilds, Myra Viola, 201 Wilkes, Laura Eliza, 65, 206 Wilkinson, P. S., 201 Williams, Chancellor, 88, 210 Williams, George Washington, 26 Williams, H. M., 76, 200 Williams, Henry Roger, 200 Williams, James D., 190 Williams, Kenny J., 97, 134 Williams, Robert, 210 Wilson, Joseph T., 193 Wilson, Sue M., 59 Wishart, Lelia, 196 Wolde, Habte, 184 Wong, Shawn, 83, 106, 194 Woodson, Bessie, 178 Woodson, Carter G., 31-32, 57, 79, 105, 178, 179 Work, John W., 46, 191 Work, Monroe N., 95, 106, 211 Wright, Bruce McC., 128 Wright, Richard Robert, Jr., 73, 74, 172, 173, 174 Y Young, Andrew S. N., 95, 196 Z Zook, George F., 179
A ALA Booklist, 122, 123 A.M.E. Book Concern, 1, 9, 73- 74, 96; profile, 171-73 A.M.E. Church. See African Methodist Episcopal Church A.M.E. Church Review, 64 A.M.E. Sunday School Union and Publishing House, 9, 74-75, 96-97; profile, 173-74 A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, 70-71, 96; profile, 174-75 Academic publishers, 142 Addresses, 89 Administrative skills, 115-22; lack of, 144 Adult Education Association, 33 Adult materials, 129 Adult reading audience, 106 Advertising, 120 African-American Student Asso- ciation, 81 African countries, sales to, 128 African images, 89 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1, 7, 9, 14, 20, 73-75, 96, 138; General Conference, 74, 171 African Methodist Episcopal Church of New York, 9 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 9, 16, 70, 96, 138 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Publishing House, 9 Afro Am Publishing Company, 84-85, 132-34; profile, 175-76 Afro-American, 58 Afro-American cookery, 95 Afro-American history, secondary school textbook for, 57 Afro-American literature, 97 Afro-American Materials Project, 65 Afro-American National League, 16-17 Afro-American Publishing Company, 58-59; profile, 176 Agascha Productions, 87, 107; profile, 176-77 Alabama Penny Savings and Loan Company, 8 Alexander Crummell Memorial Center, 130 Aldridge, Ira, 19 Alkebu-Lan Books Association, 80; profile, 177 Alkebu-Lan Foundation, 80-81 Allen, Richard, 7, 9, 14 American Baptist Publication Society, 69-70, 75-76, 138 American Colonization Society, 14 American Communist Party, 139 American Negro Academy, 18, 26, 27-30, 139; profile, 177 Amini, Johari, 88 Ancestry, 56 Andrews, Naomi, 132 Anglo-African Magazine, 12, 13 Antislavery movement, 19 Appalachian whites, 114 Armstrong, Samuel C., 41 Artistic achievements, 64, 84 Ashum Institute, 20 Associated Publishers, 56-57, 58, 65, 105; profile, 178 Associates in Negro Folk Education, 33; profile, 178-79 Association for the Study of Afro- American Life and History, 30-34, 57; profile, 179-80 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 30 Atlanta University, 20, 26, 105, 138, 140 Atlanta University Archives, 42 Atlanta University French Series, 42 Atlanta University Press, 41-42, 142; profile, 180-81 Atlanta University Printing Depart- ment, 41 Atlanta University Publications, 42 Atlantic Monthly, 122, 123 Attitudes of whites toward Blacks, 26 Autobiographies, 94, 103 Avery, Charles, 19 Avery College, 19 B Balamp Publishing Company, 94; profile, 181 Baltimore Afro-American. See Afro-American Publishing Company Banks: Black-owned, 6-9, 110, 140, 143; commercial, 133; military, 7; white-owned, 139 Baptist denomination, 10, 70, 72 Baptist publishing houses, 70 Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 88 Bedford-Stuyvesant area, 81 Behavioral and social sciences, 90 Bell, Howard Holman, 14 Beneficial societies, 6-7 Benevolent societies, 6-7 Bentley, Lemuel E., 87 Berrigan, Daniel, 132 Bethel African Methodist Church, 9 Bi-Monthly Negro Book Club, 57, 58; profile, 181 Biographical encyclopedias, 3 Biographies, 62, 80, 94, 95, 97; collective, 133 Black Academy, Inc., 90 Black Academy of Arts and Letters, 118 Black Academy Press, 90; profile, 181 Black Americana, 3 Black Americana/Africana, 86-91, 104, 142 Black book publishers, definition of, 4 Black book-publishing executives, 1, 3, 127, 141 Black businesses, 12; directories of, 3 Black Cat Press, 65 Black communities, 5-6; influence of Black newspapers on, 11-12 Black history, 29 Black Hope Foundation, 80 Black ideologies, 106, 142 Black institutions, history, 5-23 Black journals, 3 Black Nation, 88 Black News, 81 "Black revolution, The," 78, 81, 102 Black Star Publishers, 87; profile, 182 Black studies courses, 141 Blyden Publishing Company, profile, 182-83 Blyden Society, 33; profile, 183 Book distribution, 69 Book Division of Johnson Pub- lishing Company. See Johnson Publishing Company, book division Book fairs, 121 Book manufacturing, 116, 119 Book Review Digest, 122 Book-reviewing media, white- owned, 1, 124 Book reviews, 122, 123 Books for Libraries, 65 Bookstores, 91, 120, 121 Boyd, Richard H., 75 Boyd Publishing Company, profile, 200-201 Broadside Press, 86-87, 105, 116, 121, 129-30, 134; profile, 183-84 Broadside/Crummell Press, 130 Bronze Booklet Series, 33 Brown, Frank London, 87 Brown, Sterling,52, 58 Brownie's Book, 62 Buckingham Learning Corporation, 85-86; profile, 184 Bulletin of the National Dental Association, 36 C C.M.E. Church, 10 C.M.E. Publishing House, 71-72, 96; profile, 185-86 Cabral, Amilcar, 89 Capital, 1-2, 109-14, 127, 143, 160 Capital Savings Bank (Washington, D.C.), 8 Captive buying audience, 110-11, 135 Careers in book publishing, 140 Carnegie, Andrew, 43 Catalog jobbers, 133 Categories of publishers compared, 101 Chambers, Bradford, 139 Chan, Jeffrey, 106 Channels of distribution, 121, 155-69 Characteristics of Black-owned book publishing, 3, 147-54 Cheeks, James E., 82 Cheyney State University, 19 Chicago trial of eight, 93 Chicanos, 114 Children's books, 57, 85, 89, 91, 93, 96, 103, 128, 142, 152-54 Children's magazines, 62 Choice, 122, 123 Christian Methodist Episcopal Publishing House (Jackson, TN), 96 Church doctrines, 71, 73 Church of God in Christ Publishing House, 72, 96; profile, 186 Church rituals, 71, 73 Churches: Black, 7-8; rural, 70; urban, 70; white, 9 Civil rights movement, 52, 70, 75, 97, 141 Civil rights organizations, 14-17, 36-40, 52-53, 78, 84, 102, 104, 112 Civil rights publications, 36-40, 76 Clarke, John Henrik, 33 Clergymen, 71 Clifton, Lucille, 90 Collateral, 111 College and university publishers, 40-47, 105-6 Color Line Series (National Urban League), 38 Colored American, 11 Colored American Magazine, 61 Colored Cooperative Publishing Company (Boston), 61; profile, 187 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, 10 Colored Teachers Association, 39, 105 Coloring books, 89, 92 Columbia University, 40 Commercial book publishers, 13, 51, 65, 101, 107, 115 Commercial book-publishing firms, 10-14, 53-58, 84-94, 101, 105, 109-14 Commercial periodicals and newspapers, Black-owned, 12 Commitment to publishing, 131 Commonsense Books, A Division of Black Hope Foundation, Inc., profile, 187-88 Communication, 129 Communists, 34 Community mental health practi- tioners, 128 Computer science, 114 Congressional legislation, 7 Conservatism, 127 Consolidation of Church Union, 96 Constitution of the United States, 5; amendments, 16 Convention shows, 121, 133 Cook, Mercer, 42 Cookbooks, 103 Cookery, Black, 65 Cooperative ventures, 14, 112 Cooperation with white publishers, 112 Co-publishing ventures, 112 Cornish, Samuel, 11 Costs, within budget, 117 Council on Interracial Books for Children, 1, 113, 139 Crisis magazine, 37, 84 Crisis Publishing Company, profile, 199-200 Cromwell, John W., 27, 28, 29 Crummell, Alexander, 27, 28 Cultural organizations, 5, 17-18, 27-36, 79-82, 109-12, 114-20 Culture, Black, 128 D Dabney Publishing Company, 59-60; profile, 188 Death row, 95 Deepsouth Office of the Energy Blacksouth Press. See Energy Blacksouth Press Delaney, Martin Robinson, 13, 18 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968, 72, 93 Denominational literature, 97, 107 Dentistry, 36 Desegregation, 127 Diara, Agadem L., 87 Dill, Augustus Granville, 62 Direct mail advertising, 120 Direct selling, 133 Disciplines, 107 Discrimination, 9, 138 Distribution cooperatives, 112 Distribution systems, 101, 120 Distributors of Black/integrated materials, 133 Diversity of publishing activities, 102, 107 Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 54 Doctrines and procedures, 107 Documentation of Black history and culture, 142 Douglass, Frederick, 8 Douglass' Monthly, 12 Drama, Black, 93 Drugs in the Black community, 81-82 Drum, Carolyn, 92 Drum and Spear Press, 91-92; profile, 188-89 Du Bois, W.E.B., 26, 27, 29, 36, 42, 62 Du Bois and Dill Publishing Company, 62; profile, 189 Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 27 DuSable Museum of African American History, 80, 133-34; profile, 189 E East, The (firm), 81; profile, 190 Eastern Michigan University, 84 Ebony, 63, 84, 96, 116, 118 Ebony Classic Series, 95 Economic institutions, 5 Economic status, 102, 107, 141 Edgeworth Literary Association (Philadelphia), 18 Editorial and production manage- ment, 116-20, 121, 122 Editors, 115 Education, 129; institutions, 18-20, 140, 144; levels, 102, 107, 141; opportunities, 16, 52, 70, 78; organizations, 132; publishers, 84-86 Edward W. Blyden Press, 85 Egyptian civilization, 89 Elementary and Secondary School Act, 79; Title IV-B, 126 Elevator, 11 Elkins, Stanley, 25 Ellison, Ralph, 34, 35, 63 Emerson Hall Publishers, 90-91; profile, 190 Emlen Institute, 19 Energy Blacksouth Press, 89-90; profile, 191 Engineering, 114 Enquirer, 60 Environmentalism, 26 Equality, 127 Essays, 90, 129 Executive editors, 114-22 Exhibits at conferences, workshops and conventions, 121, 133 Expatriation of Blacks, 14 F Fabio, Sara Webster, 90 Faculty research at Black colleges, 40 Family life, 61 Fauset, Jesse, 63 Federal government, 78, 140 Ferris, William H., 28 Fiction, 103, 105 Financial institutions, 1, 6-9, 109, 110, 129, 133, 143 First African Baptist Church, 10 Fisk University, 2, 20, 26, 138 Fisk University Press, 46-47, 106; profile, 191 Folktales, 103 Forbes, George Washington, 64 Ford, Nick Aaron, 63 Foreign missions, 69 Fortune and Peterson Publishing Company, 59; profile, 191 Foundations, 111 Fraternal organizations, Black, 5-6, 7, 10 Free African Society of Philadelphia, 7 Free Blacks, 5, 7, 14, 19 Free Lance, 35, 133 Free Lance Poetry and Prose Workshop of Cleveland, 35 Free Lance Press, 35-36, 79, 106, 133, 134; profile, 192 Free lance writers, 115 Free Lance Writers' Workshop, 79 Freedmen's Bureau, 7, 20 Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, 7-8 Freedom's Journal, 10, 11, 12, 14, 78 Freemasons, 5-6; Grand Lodge of England, 6; African Lodge No. 459, 6 Frobenius, Leo, 33 Fugitive Slave Law, 15 Fuller, Thomas O., 57 Funding, 26, 135 Future developments in Black book publishing, 137, 143-45 G Gage, General, 6 Garvey, Marcus, 38 Gayden, Fern, 63 Geneological history of Black families, 131 General Conference of the A.M.E. Church. See African Methodist Episcopal Church, General Conference Genres of works published, 102-4 George Washington Bridge, 33 Ghetto, Black, 80, 88 Gilbert, Herman Cromwell, 87 Gospel music, 52 Grand Order of the Odd Fellows, 6 Grand United Order of Saint Luke, 6 Grants, 109, 111, 113, 132, 159 Griggs, Sutton E., 39, 53-55, 141 Grinstead, S. E., 134 Guaranteed sales, 111 Guide Publishing Company, 60; profile, 192 H Hall, George Cleveland, 30 Hall, Prince, 5-6 Hamilton, Robert, 13 Hamilton, Thomas, Sr., 13 Hamilton, William, 13 Hampton Institute, 20, 41, 105, 138 Hampton Institute Press, profile, 192-93 Handbooks, 71, 73, 76 Hansberry, William Leo, 89 Harding, Vincent, 95 Harlem Renaissance, 38, 52 Harper and Row Publishers, 90, 127, 140 Harper's, 122, 123 Harris, Abraham, 7 Harris, Charles, 82 Harris, S. P., 72 Hartgrove, W. B., 30 Haynes, George Edward, 26 Haynes, William, 72 Health insurance, 7 Helga M. Rogers imprints, 86 Hemphill Press, 65 Herndon, Angelo, 34 High-risk profile, 143 Higher education, 19-20, 94 Higher Education Act, Title IIA and IIC, 127 Himes, Chester, 63 Holbrook, Wendell P., 136 Home missions, 69 Howard University, 20, 45, 88, 138, 140; board of trustees, 82 Howard University Press, 45, 83, 101, 103, 106, 121, 134, 141; profile, 193-95 Howard University Studies in History, 45 Howard University Studies in Urban Sociology, 45 Howard's American Magazine, 12 Hudson, Theodore, 88 Huggins, Willis, 33 Hymnals, 71, 73, 107 I Illinois Statesville Penitentiary, 95 Illiteracy, 51, 52 Income, 26 Indexing services, 1 Industrial education, 19, 42 Inferior abilities of Blacks, opinions about, 24-25 Inflationary economy, 134 Injustices of Africa, 89 Inner-City Voice, 87 Institute for Colored Youth, 19 Institute on book publishing, 140 Institutional book publishers, 47, 101, 107 Insurance, 6, 7, 58 Integration, 127 Interdenominational literature, 96 Interest rates, 126, 133, 140 International distribution, 128 International Labor Defense, 34 International market, 141 Interpretative commentaries, 130 Investors, problems with, 1 Iowa State Bystander, 59 Iowa State Bystander Publishing Company, profile, 195 J J. A. Rogers Publications, 55-56, 65, 86, 139; profile, 206 Jackson, A. L., 30 Jazz music, 52 Jay, James M., 94 Jet, 64 Jihad Productions, 212 Jim Crow laws, 25 Job printers, 64-66 John W. Leonard and Company, 12-13 Johns Hopkins University, 40 Johnson, Bennet J., 87 Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 46 Johnson, Joe, 90 Johnson Publishing Company, 63, 94-96; book division, 2, 94, 101, 117, 121; profile, 195-97 Joint publishing ventures, 112 Jones, Absalom, 7 Jones, Jessie, 32 Jordan, Casper LeRoy, 35, 133 Journal and Guide, 60 Journal of Negro Education, 45, 136 Journal of Negro History, 31, 136 Journalists, 115 Julius Rosenwald Fund, 32 Justice Department, 127 K Kaiser, Ernest, 30 Kentucky State College, 20 Kirkus Book Reviewing Service, 122, 123, 124 Knowledge of book publishing, 116, 117, 121, 144 L Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial, 32 Leadership from Black com- munities, 141 Lectures, 121 Lee, Don L. See Madhubuti, Haki R. Lesson manuals, 75 Lester, Virginia, 90 Librarians, 1, 84, 94, 115, 122 Libraries, 70, 79, 140; facilities, 52 Library Journal, 122, 123 Library-oriented periodicals, 123 Library Services and Construction Act, 78; Title I, 127 Life, 63 Life insurance, 6, 7 Life span of publishing firms, 110 Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church (Washington, D.C.), 27-28 Lincoln University, 20 Lines of credit, 114 Literacy rates, 78, 141 Literary achievement, 84 Literary agents, 115 Literary anthologies, 134 Literary criticism, 93 Literary genres, 102-4, 108 Literary organizations, 132 Literary societies, 140 Literary works, 89 Loans, 109, 110, 113, 114, 129, 143; Small Business Admin- istration (SBA), 133 Locke, Alain Leroy, 33 Lotus Press, 85, 131-32, 134; profile, 197 Low risk profiles, 111 M McGirt Publishing Company, 62; profile, 197 McGirt's Magazine, 62 McKenzie, Fayette, 46 Madhubuti, Haki R., 88, 128 Mailing lists, 120 Malliet, A. Wendell, & Company, profile, 197-98 Malliet, Arnold Mehew, 58 Management, 115 Manuals, 97 Manuscripts, 115 Marketing, 107, 115-16, 121-22, 134, 141 Marshall, Abraham, 10 Martin, Robert, 34 Mass entertainment, 131 Mays, Benjamin E., 70 Mergers with white publishing firms, 112 Methodist denomination, 7, 9-10 Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati Conference, 20 Methodist Episcopal Church South, 10 Methodist publishers, 71 Mezu, S. Okechukwu, 90 Middle-class family life, 61 Migration of Black Americans, 52, 141 Military history, 59, 65 Miller, Kelly, 27, 30 Minerva Literary Society, 18 Mini-anthology of Black literature, 80 "Minorities in Publishing" (Symposium), 127 Minority publishing funds, 113 Mirror of Liberty, 12 Mirror of the Times, 11 Miscegenation, 54 Moore, Fred, 61 Morris, E. C., 72 Mortgages, 114 Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 9, 14 Motion pictures, 51 Moyo, Kofi, 88 Muhammad's Temple No. 2 Publication Department, 76, 96, 106; profile, 198-99 Murray, Florence, 58 Murray Brothers Printing Company, 64; profile, 199 Musicology, Black, 47 Mutual Aid Banking Company, 8 Mutual Bank and Trust Company, 8 N NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NUL. See National Urban League Nation of Islam, 76 National action, 14 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 14-15, 26, 36-37, 39, 45, 78, 84, 85, 106, 139; Department of Research and Publicity, 36; profile, 199-200 National Baptist Convention Press/Sunday School Publishing Board, 134 National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., 10, 54, 69, 72, 75, 134 National Baptist Publishing Board, 75, 96, 101, 105, 138; profile, 200-201 National Black assemblies, 14 National Church Directory, 97 National Conference of Black Christians, 96 National conventions, 14 National cooperative distribution program, 113 National Defense Act, 78 National Dental Association, 35; profile, 201-2 National Labor Association Processing Company, 83 National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 202-3 National Negro conventions, 14 National Public Welfare League, 39-40, 55, 105, 107; profile, 202 National Urban League, 15, 26, 37, 45, 70, 84; profile, 202-3 Native Americans, 114 Neal, Jonathan R., 13 Negro Digest, 63 Negro Digest Publishing Company, 63, 94, 195 Negro History Bulletin, 31 Negro History Week, 31, 52 Negro Publication Society of America, 34-35, 139; profile, 203-4 Negro Quarterly, 34 Negro Story, 63 Negro Story Publishing Company, 62 Negro World, 39 Negro Yearbook Publishing Company, 43-44, 139; profile, 204 Neoconservatism, 127, 134, 140 New Negro Movement, 52 New Republic, 123 New York African Free Schools, 19 New York Age, 12, 16, 59, 61-62 New York Review of Books, 122, 123 New York Times Book Review, 122, 123 New Yorker, 122, 123 Newsletters, 121 Newspaper firms, 58-60 Newspaper publishers, 53, 104, 140 Newspapers, 121; Black, 10, 11 Newsweek, 122, 123 Nicholson, Joseph W., 70 Nickel Savings (Richmond, VA), 8 Niger River Exploration Expedi- tion, 13 Nigeria/U.S. Consolidated Pro- curement and Distribution Program, 128, 141 Nixon, Richard M., 93 Nolan, William A., 34 Nondenominational religious literature, 75 Nonfiction, 104, 105 Non-library oriented book review- ing media, 123 North Star, 11 Novels, 83, 103; serialized, 12 Nuclassics and Science Publish- ing Company, 91; profile, 204 O Objectives, publishing, 102, 104-8, 142-43 Odarkia Books, 93 Odum, Howard, 24 Okpaku, Joseph, 8, 93, 127, 141 Olivet Baptist Church, 134 Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 38 Orations, 103 Orion Publishing Company, 53, 139; profile, 205 P Palestinian Liberation Move- ment, 92 Pamphlets, 84 Pan Africanist ideology, 88 Paperback rights, 112 Park, Robert E., 43, 139 Parker, John W., 62 Parris, Guichard, 42 Partridge and Oakey (publisher), 13 Path Press, 87-88; profile, 205 People's War (firm), 88 Periodical publishers, 53, 60-64, 94-96, 102 Periodicals: Black, 3; book reviews in, 122-23 Peter, Jesse, 10 Peterboro Manual Labor School, 19 Phelps Stokes Fund, 32 Philadelphia Library Company for Colored Persons, 18 Philanthropic foundations, 31-32, 139 Philanthropy, 20, 113 Phoenix Society, 18 Pictorial History Publishing Company, 57; profile, 205 Pictorial works, 95 Picture books, 103 Pittsburg Courier, 57, 58 Planned Production, 83 Poetry, 79, 85, 86, 92, 93, 102, 104, 105, 131, 133, 134; read- ings, 120 Political organizations, 36-40 Politics, 94, 129; participation of Black Americans, 141; philos- ophy, 87, 90 Porter, Dorothy B., 17 Poverty, 127 Presbytery of New Castle, 19 Press of R. L. Pendleton, 65; profile, 206 Press of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, profile, 211-12 Press/Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention. See National Baptist Convention Press/Sunday School Publishing Board Prettyman, Alfred E., 1, 90 Price, J. C., 16 Printing firms, 64-66; Black, 53 Printing processes, 119 Private presses, 64-66 Private publishing, 53 Private schools, 18-19 Problems in Black book publish- ing, 155-69 Production: management, 116- 20, 121; managers, 114 Professional background of publishers, 114-15, 121 Professional organizations, 27-36, 112, 116 Professional pursuits, 78 Professional services, 26 Professional status of Black Americans, 141 Profiles of Black publishers, 171-213 Profit-making business, 113 Promotional management, 115, 120-21 Protest literature, 62 Public attitude toward Blacks, 131 Public corporations, 62 Publishers, 100-4, 115; academic, 142; of religious subjects, 73 Publisher's Weekly, 1 Publishing: cooperatives, 61; failures, 54; objectives, 102, 104, 105, 108, 142-43 R R. L. Pendleton Press. See Press of R. L. Pendleton Race relations, 88 Racial discrimination, 17 Racial equality, 78 Racial-financial conspiracy, 129 Racial redlining, 129 Racial separation, 76 Racist-inspired writing, 86, 139 Radio advertising, 120 Randall, Dudley, 86, 90, 116, 129- 30 Readers, 103, 129 Reagan administration, 127 Recreational life, 141 Reference books, 3, 83, 103 Relief march in Atlanta, 34 Religious book publishers, 69-77, 96-97, 107, 109-10, 123, 134-35 Religious communities, 69 Religious denominations, 9-10, 70, 96, 138, 140 Religious literature, 68-77, 96 Renaissance in Negro literature, 88 Research, 141; methodologies, 3-4; in sociology, 42 Reviewing media, 2, 3, 122, 139; small press, 132; white, 109, 127, 129, 132, 144 Revolts, Black, 92 Revolutionary manuals, 81 Robert W. Coleman Publishing Company, profile, 186-87 Rockefeller Foundation, 32 Rogers, Carolyn, 88 Rogers, Helga, 86 Rogers, J.A. (Joel Augustus), 86, 141 Ross, David P., 84 Ruggles, David, 12 Rural churches, 70 Russwurm, John, 11 S Saint George Methodist Church, 9 St. Louis Argus, 60 St. Louis Argus Publishing Company, 60; profile, 207 Sales: guaranteed, 111, records, 111 Salesmen, 133 Sapphire Publishing Company, 89; profile, 207 Saturday Review/World, 122, 123 Saunders, Doris E., 21, 94, 117-19, 130 Saving and loan institutions, Black, 110 Savings Bank of the Grand Re- formers, 8 Scarborough, W. S., 27 Schomburg, A. A., 27 School Library Journal, 122, 123 Scientific treatises, 103 Scott, Emmett J., 43 Sculptors, 64 Secret societies for women, 59 Secular publications, 73, 75, 97 Secular subjects, 74, 76, 97 Segregation, 138 Self-interest in business, 129 Selling stock, 112 Shatzkin, Leonard, 83 Shepard, J. M., 59 Shockley, Ann Allen, 2 Short stories, 83 Skill and knowledge, 122 Skin colors, 85 Slaves, escaped, 7 Smith, Charles Spencer, 74 Smith, Gerrit, 19 Smith, James McCune, 19 Social attitudes, 105 Social Darwinism, 25-26 Social institutions, Black, 5 Social Science Foundation, 32 Social welfare organizations, 36-40 Social workers, Black, 26 Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, 19 Sociological research, 26 Socio-political commentaries, 93 Socio-psychological history, 81 Solicitation of funds, 109, 112, 113 Solidarity, Black, 80 Songbooks, 71, 76, 103 Southern Workman, 41 Southland, 12 Speeches, 75, 103 Spot announcements, 121 Stamps, James E., 30 State boards of education, 111 State conventions, 15, 16 Statesville Penitentiary, 95 Status of Black book publishing, 127 Stereotypes, 51 Student movement, Black, 141 Subscription libraries, 18 Subsidy publishing, 113 Summer, William Graham, 26 Sunday school: instructional manuals, 107; literature, 9, 73, 74,75 Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Conven- tion, U.S.A., Inc., 69, 72, 97; profile, 207-8 Sunday School Publishing Board, Townsend Press Division. See Townsend Press/Sunday School Publishing Board Swahili names, 89 T Tabernacle Institutional Baptist Church, 39, 54 Talk shows, 121 Tarharka Publishing Company, 89; profile, 208 Tax-exempt organization, 132 Teachers, 84, 94, 115 Teacher's manuals for elementary classrooms, 86 Television advertising, 120, 131 Tennessee State Convention of Negroes, 16 Tenure in business, 111 Textbooks, 91; for Black colleges, 40; elementary, 86; primary, 85; secondary school, 85 Theban Literary Society, 18 Third Press, 92-94, 106, 128-29, 208-10; profile, 208-10 Third Press International, 128-29, 141 Third World Press, 88, 128-29, 134; profile, 210-11 Thompson, Charles H., 45 Tilger, C., 47 Time, 122, 123 Times-Star, 60 Title I (Library Services and Con- struction Act), 127 Title IIA (Higher Education Act), 127 Title IIC (Higher Education Act), 127 Title 4B (Elementary and Secondary School Act), 126-27 Title output, 102 Townsend, A. M., 72 Townsend Press reprints, 97 Townsend Press/Sunday School Publishing Board, 97, 134, 135 Trade book publishers, 86-94 Trade book units, 97 Trade journals, 120 Training in book publishing, 141 Tucker, David M., 54 Tuskegee Institute, 20, 42-43, 106, 138, 139, 140; Department of Records and Research, 26, 43, 44 Tuskegee Institute Press, 43, 44, 106; profile, 211 U UNIA, 38 "Uhuru Sasa" (school), 81 Unemployment, 140 Union (newspaper), 59, 60 Universal Negro Improvement Association, 38 Universal Publishing House, 106, 107; profile, 211-12 University of Chicago, 40 University of Glasgow, Medical College, 19 University presses, 81, 101, 102 Unsolicited manuscripts, 115 Upsouth Office of the Energy Blacksouth Press. See Energy Blacksouth Press Urban areas, 78 Urban churches, 70 Urban League Bulletin, 38 Urban sociology, 38 Urbanization of Blacks, 52 V Varick, John, 9 Vindication of Black Americans, 142 Virginia State College, 60 Vita Wa Watu Publishers, 88; profile, 212 Vocational counselors, 115 W Wabash YMCA, 30 Walker, Alice, 90 Walters, Alexander, 16 Ward, Jerry, 90 Warehousing agreement, 83 Washington, Booker T., 43, 54, 61 Washington Bee, 12 Weeding out unpublishable manuscripts, 12, 115, 116 Weekly Louisianian, 11 Wendell Malliet and Company, 58 West Hamilton Press, 65 White, Charles, 118 White, Oswald, 85 White, Theodore S., 18 White supremacist writers, 27 Whole Truth, 72 Wholesalers, national, 121 Wiexlmann, Joe, 132 Wilberforce University, 20 Wilson, Woodrow, 51 Winslow, Eugene, 132 Winston, Michael R., 25 Womanhood, Black, 89, 91 Wood River Conference, 10 Woodson, Carter G., 30, 32, 56, 141 Work, Monroe N., 26, 43, 141 Wright, Richard, 63 X Xavier University, 47, 105 Xavier University Press, 47; profile, 213 Y YMCA (Wabash, Chicago), 30 Young, D. J., 72 Young, Plummer B., Sr., 60 Z Zion Church, 9 Zu-Bolton, Ahmos, 89
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