James and Esther Cooper Jackson
Subtitle: love and courage in the Black freedom movement
By: Sara Rzeszutek Haviland
Series: Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century; Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780813166254
Subjects: African American civil rights workers; Civil rights; Married people; African American political activists; Civil rights movements; African American communists; African Americans; Biography; History
Description: James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson devoted their lives to the fight for equality, serving as career activists throughout the black freedom movement. Having grown up in Virginia during the depths of the Great Depression, the Jacksons also saw a path to racial equality through the Communist Party-- a choice that would come to shape and define their participation in the black freedom movement and the course of their marriage as the Cold War years unfolded. Haviland reveals a portrait of a remarkable pair whose story offers a vital narrative of persistence, love, and activism across the long arc of the black freedom movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Love and activism; title: Jack and Esther's paths to activism and each other; title: Radical marriage on the front lines of the double victory campaign; title: The demise of the Black popular front in the postwar period; title: Family and the Black freedom movement in the early Cold War years; title: The Communist Party USA and Black freedom in the 1950s; title: Radical journalism in the civil rights years; title: Freedomways, the Communist Party USA, and Black freedom in the post-civil rights years; title: Conclusion: Esther and Jack in American history.