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Esther Cooper Jackson

Index Esther Cooper Jackson

Esther Cooper Jackson (born August 21, 1917 in Arlington, Virginia) is an African-American civil rights activist, former social worker and, along with Shirley Graham Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Strong, and Louis E. Burnham, was one of the founding editors of the magazine Freedomways, a theoretical, political and literary journal published from 1961 to 1985. [1]

35 relations: Agostinho Neto, Alice Walker, Arlington County, Virginia, Birmingham, Alabama, Black Arts Movement, Bracket, C. L. R. James, Centenarian, Dayo Gore, Derek Walcott, Edward Strong, Elizabeth Catlett, Fisk University, Freedomways, Jacob Lawrence, James Baldwin, Jim Crow laws, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Lorraine Hansberry, Morris Childs, NAACP, New York City, Nikki Giovanni, Oberlin College, Our Time Press, Pablo Neruda, Pan-Africanism, Paul Robeson, Romare Bearden, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Southern Negro Youth Congress, Virginia, W. E. B. Du Bois.

Agostinho Neto

António Agostinho Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) served as the 1st President of Angola (1975–1979), having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence (1961–1974).

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist.

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Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia, often referred to simply as Arlington or Arlington, Virginia.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.

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Black Arts Movement

The Black Arts Movement, Black Aesthetics Movement or BAM is the artistic outgrowth of the Black Power movement that was prominent in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Bracket

A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text.

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C. L. R. James

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist.

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Centenarian

A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years.

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Dayo Gore

Dayo Gore (Dayo F. Gore) is an African-American feminist scholar, former fellow of Harvard's Warren Center for North American History, formerly employed as Assistant Professor of History and of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Gore is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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Edward Strong

Edward W. Strong was the Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley between 1961 and 1965.

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Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was an African-American graphic artist and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience.

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Fisk University

Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Freedomways

Freedomways was the leading African-American theoretical, political and cultural journal of the 1960s–1980s.

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Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic.

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Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

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Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta (– 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist.

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary.

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Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.

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Morris Childs

Morris H. Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky; 1902–1991) was an American political activist and American Communist Party functionary who became a Soviet espionage agent (1929) and then a double agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1952) until leaving both services by 1982.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nikki Giovanni

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Our Time Press

Our Time Press, a popular Brooklyn, New York-based African-American-owned news-and-views newspaper, began publishing in February 1996.

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Pablo Neruda

Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician.

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Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent.

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Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.

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Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist.

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Shirley Graham Du Bois

Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes.

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Southern Negro Youth Congress

The Southern Negro Youth Congress was established in 1937 at a conference in Richmond, Virginia.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Cooper_Jackson

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