The contents of this document are organized in six parts, as follows. Part I "IBW and the Vocation of the Black Scholar," includes "The Vocation of the Black Scholar and the Struggles of the Black Community," Vincent Harding. Part II "Colonial Ideology and Colonized Resistance," includes: "African Independence and the Myth of African Inferiority," C. L. R. James; "In the Mirror of Black Scholarship: W. Allison Davis and Deep South," St. Clair Drake; and "Statement of Position to the Commonwealth Literature and Language Conference; Jamaica, 1971." Part III, "Building the New Education Out of the Old," includes: "Education: The Great Obsession," Grace Lee Boggs; "Education in Africa and Contemporary Tanzania," Walter Rodney; "Education," Julius Nyerere; and "Building an Alternative," an article from "Nhan Dan." Part IV, "Selected Documents in New Black Education: The People Define Themselves," includes: "Breaking Through Prison Barriers," Black Prisoners; and, "The Teaching of Robert E. Rumble--A Jamaican Peasant Leader," as told to Robert A. Hill and Richard Small. Part V, an "Epilogue," includes "Identity and Black Struggle: Personal Reflections," William L. Strickland. Part VI, an "Appendix," includes "Documents from a Developing History," The Institute of the Black World. (JM)