- unitid
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{"value"=>"21051", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 460", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b16536444", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1935-1985", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1935/1985"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"James E. Jackson writings"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.42 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Jackson, James E., 1914-2007", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>A former editor of the <span class=\"title\">Daily Worker</span> and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, U.S.A., James E. Jackson was educated at Howard University, Goddard College, and Moscow University. A former trade-union organizer and co-founder of the Southern Negro Youth Congress, he participated as a field researcher in the Carnegie-Myrdal study, \"The Negro in America\". He was indicted under the Smith Act in the 1950s, and lived for several years as a political refugee, until the reversal of the verdict against him and his co-defendants. He contributed many theoretical articles to the literature of the communist world, especially on issues of labor, the civil rights movement, and the national question as it related to Blacks in the United States.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists of speeches, articles and essays on communism, world politics, and the civil rights movement in the United States, published mainly in <span class=\"title\">Political Affairs</span>, the theoretical organ of the Communist Party, USA. Also includes are Jackson's master's thesis, \"The Dialectics of National Liberation\" (1973), and \"Stalin's Thought Illuminates: Problems of the Negro Freedom Struggle\", written under the pseudonym of Charles P. Mann. (1953).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of James Jackson, August 1992.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Andre Elizee, March 1992.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 April 5"}
- date_start
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1935
- keydate
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1935
- date_end
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1985
- date_inclusive_start
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1935
- date_inclusive_end
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1985
- extent_statement
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0.42 linear feet (1 box)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], James E. Jackson writings, Sc MG 460, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"A former editor of the <span class=\"title\">Daily Worker</span> and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, U.S.A., James E. Jackson was educated at Howard University, Goddard College, and Moscow University. A former trade-union organizer and co-founder of the Southern Negro Youth Congress, he participated as a field researcher in the Carnegie-Myrdal study, \"The Negro in America\". He was indicted under the Smith Act in the 1950s, and lived for several years as a political refugee, until the reversal of the verdict against him and his co-defendants. He contributed many theoretical articles to the literature of the communist world, especially on issues of labor, the civil rights movement, and the national question as it related to Blacks in the United States. This collection consists of speeches, articles and essays on communism, world politics, and the civil rights movement in the United States, published mainly in <span class=\"title\">Political Affairs</span>, the theoretical organ of the Communist Party, USA. Also includes are Jackson's master's thesis, \"The Dialectics of National Liberation\" (1973), and \"Stalin's Thought Illuminates: Problems of the Negro Freedom Struggle\", written under the pseudonym of Charles P. Mann. (1953).", "generated"=>true}