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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461022203321

Autore

Haviland Sara Rzeszutek

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8131-6673-X

0-8131-6626-8

0-8131-6627-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century

Disciplina

323.092

B

Soggetti

African American civil rights workers

African American political activists

African American communists

Married people - United States

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.