James and Esther Cooper Jackson : love and courage in the Black freedom movement / Sara Rzeszutek Haviland.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (385 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813166278; 9780813166278Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: James and Esther Cooper Jackson : love and courage in the Black freedom movement.DDC classification: 323.092 | B LOC classification: E185.97.J245 | H28 2015Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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