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JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND, by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. An intensely personal account of the author's experiences in one of Stalin's slave-labor camps...
Journey into the Whirlwind is a deeply significant, lest-we-forget book. It recalls the days-and nightmares-of purges, when millions of innocent and apolitical Russians, caught up in the maelstrom of Stalin's paranoia, were brutally executed or jailed or swept across the continent into the slave-labor camps of Siberia...
...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. The author's fourth novel, a powerful, timely and imaginative reconstruction of a Negro slave uprising in 1831, installs his name at the top level of contemporary writers...
...exulted a middle-aged Negro man. "Amen, amen," murmured an elderly Negro woman, tears starting from her eyes. It was 3:02 a.m. at a downtown hotel, and Cleveland, the nation's tenth biggest city, had just chosen as its mayor Carl Burton Stokes, great-grandson of a slave, over Seth Taft, grandson of a President...
SEMCO is the South End Manpower Corporation, an independent off-spring of SNAP that functions as an employment agency, but wants to play politics. Black-power advocates control SEMCO. Charles Evans, a leader of the group, has changed his "slave name" to Chukuma Edozima. He is conducting a campaign to persuade Puerto Ricans that they are of African descent. Edozima obviously wants to unite all the South End's poor, as Mel King does. But he has outraged many people and has fanned the glowing embers of "Puerto Rican consciousness...