- On View
- 1968 & Beyond Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
- Published by
- Freedomways Associates, Inc., American, 1961 - 1985
- Edited by
- Bond, Jean Carey, American
- O'Dell, Jack, American, 1923 - 2019
- Clarke, John Henrik, American, 1915 - 1998
- Kaiser, Ernest D., American, born 1916
- Jackson, Esther Cooper, American, born 1917
- Devine, John
- Written by
- Rev. Jackson, Jesse, American, born 1941
- Katz, William Loren, American, 1927 - 2019
- Davis, Angela Y., American, born 1944
- Walker, Alice, American, born 1944
- Imara, Damu, American, 1951 - 2006
- Crider, Tyrone, American, 1959 - 2017
- Amis, Barry D., American
- Subject of
- Harris, Patricia Roberts, American, 1924 - 1985
- President Carter, Jimmy, American, born 1924
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- ink on paper with metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 9 × 6 1/16 × 1/8 in. (22.9 × 15.4 × 0.3 cm)
- Caption
- 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.
- Description
- 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].
- The interior consists of 112 pages made up of white paper with black ink. The pages contain articles, poetry, images, and book reviews.
- 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 printed
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Books and Published Materials
- Topic
- Activism
- Black Press
- Civil rights
- Government
- International affairs
- Labor
- Literature
- Poetry
- Politics
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1969-2001
- White supremacy movements
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Maurice Jackson
- Object number
- 2021.20.36
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown – Restrictions Possible
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