From 1961 to 1985, a period of massive social change for African Americans, "Freedomways Quarterly" 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 pagesDr. Martin Luther King, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcottand several Pulitzer Prize winnersAlice Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks. No other journal could boast such a long list of names from the civil rights movement: "Freedomways" was like no...
From 1961 to 1985, a period of massive social change for African Americans, "Freedomways Quarterly" published the leaders and artists of the black fre...