<I>Freedomways Vol. 20 No. 2</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1980
name: label: Published by
content: Freedomways Associates, Inc., American, 1961 - 1985
label: Edited by
content: Jean Carey Bond, American
label: Edited by
content: Jack O'Dell, American, 1923 - 2019
label: Edited by
content: John Henrik Clarke, American, 1915 - 1998
label: Edited by
content: Ernest D. Kaiser, American, born 1916
label: Edited by
content: Esther Cooper Jackson, American, born 1917
label: Edited by
content: John Devine
label: Written by
content: Rev. Jesse Jackson, American, born 1941
label: Written by
content: William Loren Katz, American, 1927 - 2019
label: Written by
content: Angela Y. Davis, American, born 1944
label: Written by
content: Alice Walker, American, born 1944
label: Written by
content: Damu Imara, American, 1951 - 2006
label: Written by
content: Tyrone Crider, American, 1959 - 2017
label: Written by
content: Barry D. Amis, American
label: Written by
content: William Loren Katz, American, 1927 - 2019
label: Written by
content: Tom Dent, American, 1932 - 1998
label: Written by
content: Nieda Spigner
label: Written by
content: Geraldine Wilson
label: Written by
content: Carole Gregory Clemmons, American, born 1945
label: Written by
content: Claudia Zaslavsky, American, 1917 - 2006
label: Written by
content: Belinda Daniels
label: Written by
content: Charles Roach, Canadian, 1933 - 2012
label: Subject of
content: Patricia Roberts Harris, American, 1924 - 1985
label: Subject of
content: President Jimmy Carter, American, born 1924
label: Subject of
content: Sally Hemings, American, 1773 - 1835
notes: label: Caption
content: Freedomways magazine ran for twenty-five years from 1961 to 1985. Released quarterly during that time, Freedomways was a leading African American theoretical, cultural, and political journal tackling major social and political issues, especially the Civil Rights Movement. The journal’s founders, led by editor Esther Jackson, included Louis Burnham, Edward Strong, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois. Under Jackson’s direction, Freedomways became the leading radical Black left publication that gave a platform to veteran and newer writers, thinkers, activists, artists, and educators. The periodical ran their works and tackled issues of progressive politics, civil rights, colonialism, Pan-Africanism, prison and justice reform, education activism, art, literature, poetry, and urban decay.
label: Description
content: An issue of Freedomways magazine, Volume 20, Number 2, 1980. The front cover has an off-white background with white type inside a bright yellow-orange block at the top that reads: [Freedomways / A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT]. The cover features three edge-to-edge yellow-orange tinted photographs, designed by John Devine, capturing sociopolitical current events. The top photograph shows President Jimmy Carter with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris touring the South Bronx. The middle photograph shows people on unemployment lines and the bottom photograph is an image of Three Mile Isle nuclear plant. In the top left corner of the cover in large black type is a caption, [In a new decade, the struggle continues].
label: Description
content: The interior consists of 112 pages made up of white paper with black ink. The pages contain articles, poetry, images, and book reviews.
label: Description
content: The back of the magazine has an off-white background and features two vertical yellow-orange tinted photographs in the same style as the front cover. The top photograph shows a mass of people marching for union recognition in Laurel, Mississippi. The bottom photograph shows the Ku Klux Klan during a cross-burning. To the right of the images black and orange type lists articles featured in this issue The text reads: [Our Voices Will Not Be Silenced / Jesse L. Jackson / To Save Our Nation / Angela Davis / On the Cuban Question / Jean Carey Bond / People vs. the Klan / William Loren Katz / New Poetry by Alice Walker / Books reviewed include: / A Short Walk by Alice Childress / Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud / A Young Genius in Old Egypt / by Beatrice Lumpkin / Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough].
place: label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Cuba, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Black Press
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Government
label: Topic
content: International affairs
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Social reform
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1969-2001
label: Topic
content: White supremacy movements
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
label: Exhibition
content: A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 1, C1 053
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Maurice Jackson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.20.36
objectType: label: Type
content: magazines (periodicals)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown – Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper with metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 9 × 6 1/16 × 1/8 in. (22.9 × 15.4 × 0.3 cm)