{"product_id":"freedomways-reader-prophets-in-their-own-country-9780813364520","title":"Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country","description":"From 1961 to 1985, a period of massive social change for African Americans, \u003ci\u003eFreedomways Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eFreedomways\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eProphets in their Own Country\u003c\/i\u003e because the editors and contributors to \u003ci\u003eFreedomways\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFreedomways Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813364520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 5.99w x 1.09d","brand":"Esther C. Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472754602165,"sku":"9780813364520","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bc8c3e79-af06-43c8-9d66-02dc8d49dd97.jpg?v=1777444292","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/freedomways-reader-prophets-in-their-own-country-9780813364520","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}