James and Esther Cooper Jackson : love and courage in the Black freedom movement / Sara Rzeszutek Haviland.
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TextPublisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (385 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813166278 (e-book)
- Jackson, James E., 1914-2007
- Jackson, Esther Cooper
- African American civil rights workers -- Biography
- African American political activists -- Biography
- African American communists -- Biography
- Married people -- United States -- Biography
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 323.092 B 23
- E185.97.J245 H28 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.
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