Author: JACKSON, ESTHER COOPER WITH POHL, CONSTANCE
Title: Freedomways Reader - Prophets in Their Own Country
Description: Colorado, Westview. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0813364523). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good copy which has a crease to back cover and name and year to title page. xxx + 382 pages. Photo illustrations in the text. Freedomways was a quarterly journal published between 1961 and 1985, and 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. This book is a collection of more than 50 articles originally published in Freedomways, chronologically and thematically organized. S. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: American History, Afro-Americans, CIVIL Rights Movement, Art, Black History 0813364523


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