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  • FREEDOMWAYS READER: Prophets in Their Own Country. by Jackson, Esther Cooper (1917-2022), editor with Constance Pohl.
    Jackson, Esther Cooper (1917-2022), editor with Constance Pohl.
    FREEDOMWAYS READER: Prophets in Their Own Country.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    Boulder, CO : Westview Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Jackson was a civil rights and communist activist, a social worker and co-founder (along with Louis Burnham, Jack O'Dell from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and writer Lorraine Hansberry) and the managing editor of Freedomways for its entire history from 1961 to 1986. This quarterly magazine "chronicled the struggle for racial justice in the U.S. It featured contributions by many of the luminaries of black literature, art, and politics, including three Nobel Prize laureates: Martin Luther King Jr., Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott. Other contributors included Alice Walker, James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Jomo Kenyatta, C. L. R. James, and common black folk. The collection features poetry, essays,…

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    Boulder, CO : Westview Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Jackson was a civil rights and communist activist, a social worker and co-founder (along with Louis Burnham, Jack O'Dell from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and writer Lorraine Hansberry) and the managing editor of Freedomways for its entire history from 1961 to 1986. This quarterly magazine "chronicled the struggle for racial justice in the U.S. It featured contributions by many of the luminaries of black literature, art, and politics, including three Nobel Prize laureates: Martin Luther King Jr., Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott. Other contributors included Alice Walker, James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Jomo Kenyatta, C. L. R. James, and common black folk. The collection features poetry, essays, speeches, articles. There are memoirs of a Birmingham coal miner, tributes to Paul Robeson, and reflections of black feminists, labor organizers, and prisoners. The anthology begins with articles actually written in the 1940s and 1950s, which provide historical context for the journal itself, followed by the pieces, organized topically, e.g., the Southern movement, international solidarity, the movement in the North, and art and activism. This comprehensive collection reflects the global nature of the struggle for equality and the longing for racial justice over an important 25-year period." (Booklist/Vanessa Bush). INSCRIBED by Esther Cooper Jackson on the front endpaper, and dated June 9, 2000, and scarce thus. Foreword by Julian Bond and as afterword by David Levering Lewis. A title in the Interventions: Theory and Contemporary Politics series. Illustrated with photographs. xxx, 382 pp. ISBN: 0-813367697.

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    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket ('over-opened' before half title page)

    Book ID: 89744
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  • BRITISH WINNERS OF THE NOBEL LITERARY PRIZE. by Kidd, Walter E., editor.
    Kidd, Walter E., editor.
    BRITISH WINNERS OF THE NOBEL LITERARY PRIZE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "evaluates the seven British winners of the most prestigious of all literary awards" and which focuses on the work for which they received the award. Includes chapters, each by a different critic, on Rudyard Kipling (1907), William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1932), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), and Samuel Beckett (1969). Introduction by the editor, Walter Kidd, selected bibliography, notes on the contributors. index. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-806110759.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj).

    Book ID: 85295
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