Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country

by Constance Pohl and Esther Cooper Jackson

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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

Mandatory Reading

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

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.

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.