Abstract
Considerable controversy has arisen over the extent to which the thought and actions of Blacks in the New World constitute persistence of African traits. A goodly number of scholars formerly contended that nothing existed in Africa that approached civilization and that there was, therefore, nothing for the Africans to bring with them. As evidence to the contrary began to pile up, that position was no longer tenable. Sociologists like E. B. Reuter and Robert E. Park have failed to see anything in Black American life today which can be traced to the African background; while historians and anthropologists like Carter G. Woodson and Melville J. Herskovits have insisted that the African culture heritage can still be seen in many aspects of American life today (Franklin, 1967: 39-42). Although the controversy con-
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