She Was a Feminist in Many Ways: Shirley Graham Du Bois’s International Feminist Vision and Freedomways Magazine
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Freedomways was a Black radical magazine founded in 1961 by Shirley Graham Du Bois and her activist friend Esther Cooper Jackson with the support of a collective of Black radical women in New York City, including Dorothy Burnham, Lorraine Hansberry, Ruby Dee, Augusta Strong, and Jean Carey Bond. Burnham’s and Strong’s husbands, Louis and Edward, originated the project. They had previously worked with Cooper Jackson in the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) and with Graham Du Bois on Paul Robeson’s Freedom newspaper. Sadly, both died in 1960 before their vision could come to fruition. ...
Author: Eglen, Lauren
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7222391835