Freedomways (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

First edition, first printing thus (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 383 pages. Hardcover. Yellow dust jacket rubbed, spine ends nicked, scuffing at flap fold ends. Yellow cloth with black spine lettering. Some foxing spots and soiling upon edges. Interior pages are clean. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. ISBN 0396075452.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. Boards in photo printed cloth, very good, no dj. 218p., indexed, photos from magazines of the day. Dust jacket info pasted inside front, bumps to corners. African American biographer gives an interesting perspective on the life and struggles of the great performer and intellectual who inspired so many with his career, his courage, and his incredible basso voice. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. UPI/Freedomways/Ebony (photos) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A collection of reminiscences about Paul Robeson, the black man who was a famous singer, actor, and spokesman for equal rights for his people. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Wraps, printed/illustrated front cover, 9 x 6 inches, pp. 180-272. Cover photo: Cesar Chavez, Director, United Farm Workers Union. The editorial on pages 181-182 is entitled "The Slaves We Rent", describing the plight of farm workers, the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers Union, the grape boycott and the politics of the time. (The Slaves We Rent was a book written by Truman Moore, published in 1965.) Near fine. (3214018).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. x. Illustrated with photographs. Chronology. End Notes. Bibliography. Notes on Contributors. Index. 383pp. Yellow cloth boards with title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket with sunned spine panel. Very Good+++. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. x. Illustrated with photographs. Chronology. End Notes. Bibliography. Notes on Contributors. Index. 383pp. Yellow cloth boards with title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 383 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Pages good condition. White endpapers. Yellow cloth with very light wear along edges. Top corners bumped. Yellow DJ illustrated on upper cover. Edges lightly worn. VG/VG. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: Very Good. BOSTON: Beacon Press 1970. Presumed 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 333 pgs. Very good in near very good dust jacket. Spine ends and bottom corners lightly bumped. Ink owner's name writ large on front pastedown and rear endpaper. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is lightly edgeworn and spine is sunned. (African Americans, Civil Rights Workers) Inquire if you need further information.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 22pp, Pictorial stapled wraps. Duotone photographs throughout. Signed and inscribed by Paul Robeson's wife, Essie,"For Paul Mann with love, Essie and Paul Robeson" on the inside cover. Paul Mann was an actor and founder of the Paul Mann Actor's Studio, a major influence in bringing Method Acting to the U.S.A. Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier were among his students. This is a Souvenir program of Paul Robeson's return to the U.S.A. which was on April 2, 1965. The front panel, which was detached, is held together nicely by two small pieces of clear tape internally by the staples. There is light soiling to the rear panel. Internally clean and unmarked. The list of participants at the tribute included James Baldwin, John Lewis, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Taylor, Pete Seeger, and many others. The program lists his accomplishments as a student at Rutgers 1915-1919. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 383 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of black and white plates in the center of the book. Bound in yellow cloth with black titles on the spine. Lightly scratched. Yellow dustjacket in very good condition with black titles. Lightly scuffed and scratched. Light wear on the edges. Price-clipped. 1ST EDITION. NF/VG+. Book.…

Paperback. 216pp card covers, NY 1965. The contributors include Nkrumah, Azikiwe & Paul Robeson. A very good copy.

Jackson, Esther Cooper (managing ed.). Freedomways, three issues published from 1964 to 1969, documents the journal's combination of Civil Rights Movement politics, Black internationalism, literature, and cultural criticism during a period encompassing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the expansion of Black Power politics, and the emergence of the Black Arts Movement. Founded in 1961 by a group of Black left-wing writers and activists, with Esther Cooper Jackson serving as managing editor throughout its publication, Freedomways connected the African American freedom struggle to anticolonial movements in Africa and the Caribbean while publishing writers, artists, historians, and political organizers. These three issues include a special number on the Caribbean, a reprinting of W.E.B. Du Bois's analysis of imperial competition in Africa, and Kathryn Jackson's study of LeRoi Jones, later Amiri Baraka, and the new Black writing of the 1960s. Freedomways. New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1964-1969. Three issues: Summer 1964, Vol. 4, No. 3; Winter 1968, Vol. 8, No. 1; Summer 1969, Vol. 9, No. 3. Octavo. Original color wrappers with photo-illustrations. [1] Jackson, Esther Cooper (managing ed.). Freedomways. Vol. 4, No. 3. New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1964. Summer issue devoted to "The People of the Caribbean Area," with nineteen contributions addressing Caribbean history, colonialism, slavery, political independence, and contemporary conditions. Literary contributions include work by Ernest Carr, George Lamming, and Derek Walcott, placing Caribbean poetry and criticism beside political and historical analysis and demonstrating the journal's sustained treatment of Black freedom beyond the United States. [2] Jackson, Esther Cooper (managing ed.). Freedomways. Vol. 8, No. 1. New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1968. Winter issue includes W.E.B. Du Bois's "The African Roots of War," first published in 1915, which locates European conflict within imperial competition for African land, labor, and resources. Its republication in Freedomways more than fifty years later placed Du Bois's earlier critique of colonialism before readers confronting African decolonization, the Vietnam War, and contemporary debates over American foreign policy. [3] Jackson, Esther Cooper (managing ed.). Freedomways. Vol. 9, No. 3. New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1969. Summer issue includes Kathryn Jackson's "LeRoi Jones and the New Black Writers of the Sixties," an extended critical examination of Jones, later Amiri Baraka, and the transformation of Black literary politics during the decade. Jones's work had become closely associated with the Black Arts Movement following his establishment of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Harlem in 1965, and Jackson's essay examines his changing writing within the larger emergence of a politically militant generation of Black authors. The issue also addresses international politics, including the Nigerian crisis, continuing Freedomways' coverage of African affairs alongside African American cultural and political debate. Published through nearly a quarter century of the postwar Black freedom struggle, Freedomways brought Civil Rights Movement reporting into direct conversation with African and Caribbean anticolonial politics, literature, visual art, and historical scholarship. Its contributors over the course of its run included James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and artists such as Charles White, while its editorial circle drew on activists and intellectuals whose political work extended from the interwar Black Left into the movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Tight bindings and crisp pages; very good condition. Three issues showing the journal's geographic and intellectual range through Caribbean political and literary writing, Du Bois's anti-imperialist analysis, and contemporary criticism of the emerging Black Arts movement.…