National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 Search this
Medium:
ink on paper with metal
Dimensions:
H x W x D: 9 × 6 1/16 × 1/4 in. (22.8 × 15.4 × 0.6 cm)
Type:
magazines (periodicals)
Place printed:
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted:
Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, United States, North and Central America
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Date:
1973
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 13, Number 2, for Second Quarter 1973.
The front cover has a blue background with white type at the top that reads: [Freedomways / A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT]. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of Tom Feeling's sculpture titled “Mother and Child”. The statue portrays the figure of a woman with her child carved into her chest and stomach. In the right blue sidebar of the cover is a list of articles featured in black type that reads: [A BASIC ANSWER / TO WATERGATE / The Editors / The AMENIA / CONFERENCES / Neglected / Afro-American / History / Irene Diggs / Look Homeward Baby / Ollie Harrington / Criteria for / CHILDREN’s / BLACK LITERATURE / Jacqueline Lee / Young / Reviews of / Forman’s The Making of / Black Revolutionaries, / Goldman’s The Death / and Life of Malcom X / and other current books. / Vol. 13, No. 2, 1973 / (Second Quarter) $1.25].
The interior pages, numbered 100-176, are white paper with black ink. The pages consist of articles, poetry, book reviews, and advertisements.
The back of the magazine has an off-white background and features an advertisement for “The Most Beautiful Black Book Ever Put Together”, a Black Photographers Annual featuring 118 black-and-photographs compiled by 49 Black photographers, representing the Black Experience. Price and ordering information are included in black type below a product photograph of the book.
