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.