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James and Esther Cooper Jackson : love and courage in the black freedom movement / Sara Rzeszutek Haviland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth centuryPublisher: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 2015Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813166278
  • 0813166276
  • 9780813166261
  • 0813166268
  • 081316625X
  • 9780813166254
  • 9780813166735
  • 081316673X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als:: Love and courage in the Black freedom movementDDC classification:
  • 920 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.96
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Love and activism -- Jack and Esther's paths to activism and each other -- Radical marriage on the front lines of the double victory campaign -- The demise of the Black popular front in the postwar period -- Family and the Black freedom movement in the early Cold War years -- The Communist Party USA and Black freedom in the 1950s -- Radical journalism in the civil rights years -- Freedomways, the Communist Party USA, and Black freedom in the post-civil rights years -- Conclusion: Esther and Jack in American history.
Summary: This collective biography of James and Esther Cooper Jackson argues that, in the face of major political transformations, activists responded to new political contexts and drew on their own personal needs, demands, and relationships to craft their contributions to the black freedom movement.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 15, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Love and activism -- Jack and Esther's paths to activism and each other -- Radical marriage on the front lines of the double victory campaign -- The demise of the Black popular front in the postwar period -- Family and the Black freedom movement in the early Cold War years -- The Communist Party USA and Black freedom in the 1950s -- Radical journalism in the civil rights years -- Freedomways, the Communist Party USA, and Black freedom in the post-civil rights years -- Conclusion: Esther and Jack in American history.

This collective biography of James and Esther Cooper Jackson argues that, in the face of major political transformations, activists responded to new political contexts and drew on their own personal needs, demands, and relationships to craft their contributions to the black freedom movement.

English.

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