The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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James E. Jackson (1914-2007) and Esther Cooper Jackson (b. 1917), African American communists and civil rights activists, are best known for their role in founding and leading the Southern Negro Youth Congress (1937-48). The papers contain their correspondence, James Jackson's lectures, research notebooks, speeches, and writings, subject files, correspondence, internal documents and printed ephemera pertaining to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, and to Freedomways, legal and other materials pertaining to the Smith Act indictments of James Jackson and other communists, Communist Party internal documents, many of a programmatic nature, and clippings.


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