Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country
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Book Overview
Freedomways, a quarterly journal published between 1961 and 1985, was perhaps the premier African American intellectual periodical of its time. Edited by Esther Cooper Jackson and Shirley Graham Du Bois, its contributors were a veritable Who's Who of black intellectual and cultural life. Pieces by Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, Jesse Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, Alex Haley, Alice Walker, and other luminaries appeared in its pages during some of the most turbulent years in American history. Freedomways Reader is a collection of more than fifty articles originally published in Freedomways, chronologically and thematically organized. The selections center around four main themes: the civil rights movement, art in the service of the movement, writings on black history, and international issues. More than twenty photographs that originally appeared in the journal are also included. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813364523
ISBN13:9780813364520
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:Basic Books
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Mandatory Reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book should be mandatory reading for any course about the civil rights or black arts movement of the 60s. Freedomways magazine, edited by Esther Cooper Jackson, chronicled the entire civil rights and black arts movement with insightful analysis, critique and articles. Includes work by W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, and other legendary Black poets and writers who first started out by publishing in the magazine. Also, it provides interesting research on the struggle for social, civil, and political rights here in this country and abroad. A must read as many of the articles within the "Reader" have never been published elsewhere.
very important Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
this is a Great book that covers so much Historical important information.a wide view of knowledge of the struggle all here.a must have.books like this cover so much.
Important addition to personal and academic Black studies.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
From 1961 to 1986, Freedomways published the words and thoughts of the leaders of the freedom movement; yet few modern Americans have heard of the publication. Esther Cooper Jackson and Constance Pohl's Freedomways Reader gathers key writings from the pages of the various Freedomways booklets, charting the struggles for racial equality and providing an oral history of black freedom struggles, from reports of the Freedom Riders to short stories.
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