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Freedomways Reader
Constance Pohl
其他書名
Prophets In Their Own Time
出版
Basic Books
, 2000
主題
History / United States / 20th Century
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN
0813367697
9780813367699
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-Ey5AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
From 1961 to 1985, a period of massive social change for African Americans,
Freedomways Quarterly
published the leaders and artists of the black freedom movement. Figures of towering historical stature wrote for the journal, among them Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, President Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere. Three Nobel Prize laureates appeared in its pages—Dr. Martin Luther King, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott—and several Pulitzer Prize winners—Alice Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks. No other journal could boast such a long list of names from the civil rights movement:
Freedomways
was like no other journal. It was unique.Yet despite the well-known names, few Americans have heard of this national treasure. Why? Simply put, the United States was not ready for this journal in 1961. Today, many Americans cannot remember a United States where racial segregation was legal, but in 1961, many of the battles for integration were still to be won.This book is subtitled
Prophets in their Own Country
because the editors and contributors to
Freedomways
were not honored at the journal's inception. Eventually, however, much of their vision did come to pass. Until now, these documents, which show the depth and breadth of the struggle for democracy, had been lost to the public. The publication of the
Freedomways Reader
restores this lost treasury. It contains what amounts to an oral history of the liberation movements of the 1960s through the 1980s. Through the reports of the Freedom Riders, the early articles against the Vietnam War and South African apartheid, the short stories and poems of Alice Walker, and the memoirs of black organizers in the Jim Crow south of the Thirties, one can walk in the footsteps of these pioneers.