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Title

Conversation with Esther Cooper Jackson.

Publication

[2006]

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Additional Authors

• Jackson, Esther Cooper
• Organization of Women Writers of Africa.

Description

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Esther Cooper Jackson reflects on her life and career. She recalls many of the prominent individuals she has associated with including Paul Robeson, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Angela Davis, and Pete Seeger. She gives particular importance to the influence of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Subject

• Jackson, James E., 1914-2007
• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
• Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977
• Davis, Angela Y. 1944-
• Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963
• Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014
• Freedomways Associates
• Communist Party of the United States of America
• Southern Negro Youth Congress
• Civil rights movements > United States
• African American communists
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Communism > United States
• Civil rights workers > United States
• United States > Race relations

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.

Note

• DVD.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Credits (note)

• Produced by the Organization of Women Writers of Africa.

Event (note)

• Interview was conducted Dec. 16, 2006.

Biography (note)

• African American civil rights activist and former social worker Esther Cooper Jackson was one of the founding editors of Freedomways, a theoretical, political and literary journal published from 1961 to 1985. Jackson attended segregated schools as a child but went on to study at Oberlin College and to earn a Masters degree in sociology from Fisk University in 1940. After graduate school, she became a member of the staff of the Voting Project in Birmingham, Alabama for the Southern Negro Youth Congress.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-88

OCLC

705375788

Title

Conversation with Esther Cooper Jackson.

Imprint

[2006]

Credits

Produced by the Organization of Women Writers of Africa.

Event

Interview was conducted Dec. 16, 2006.

Biography

African American civil rights activist and former social worker Esther Cooper Jackson was one of the founding editors of Freedomways, a theoretical, political and literary journal published from 1961 to 1985. Jackson attended segregated schools as a child but went on to study at Oberlin College and to earn a Masters degree in sociology from Fisk University in 1940. After graduate school, she became a member of the staff of the Voting Project in Birmingham, Alabama for the Southern Negro Youth Congress.

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Added Author

Jackson, Esther Cooper, interviewee.

Organization of Women Writers of Africa.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-88

Sc Visual VRA-989 VHS