Of more recent vintage, half a dozen studies of the Negro deserve mention as reference works. Primus, of course, the monumental (and monumentally unreadable) work of Gunnar Myrdal and his associates, _An American Dilemma_. There are said to be eleven persons in the United States, apart from the collaborators, who have read the whole two volumes; I am not among them. But I ploughed through most of it. Arnold Rose, Myrdal’s chief assistant, has brought out a condensation, published in 1948 as _The Negro in America_. Rayford W. Logan of Howard University, one of the most prolific writers in the field, has produced a number of works of substantial value, among them _The Negro in American Life and Thought_ and _The Negro in the Postwar World_. His colleague, Edward Franklin Frazier, also has published extensively; his _The Negro in the United States_ (1957) is quite useful. Still another Negro writer, Arna Werdell Bontemps, should be consulted through her _100 Years of Negro Freedom_. An interesting work that I came across after this manuscript was finished is Gilbert Franklin Edwards’ _The Negro Professional Class_ (1959). In the narrower field of political action, the general reader should begin with V. O. Key’s major work, _Southern Politics in State and Nation_, which sets the scene, and then go back to William Felbert Nowlin’s work of 1931, _The Negro in American National Politics_. A good contemporary work is _The Negro and Southern Politics_, by Hugh Douglas White. Of less value, in part because of its arrogant tone, is Henry Lee Moon’s polemical _Balance of Power: The Negro Vote_ (a typical reference is to the “political zombies who infest the sub-Potomac region”). Report of the Civil Rights Commission and the Southern Regional Council are indispensable.