@article{IR,
      recid = {1563153},
      author = {Lynn, Denise},
      title = {Shirley Graham Du Bois, Claudia Jones, and the Liberatory  Potential of Peace},
      publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
      journal = {American Communist History},
      address = {2023-01-12},
      number = {IR},
      abstract = {W.E.B. Du Bois’s peace crusade was influenced by his  second wife Shirley Graham and their friend Claudia Jones.  Both Graham Du Bois and Jones understood that peace was a  prerequisite to global emancipation and that war and  militarism affected the most vulnerable; only by securing  peace would the most oppressed be liberated. By the time of  Du Bois’s arrest and trial chronicled in In Battle For  Peace, Jones was also under indictment for her peace work.  She had long articulated an emancipatory ethos that  recognized Black women as the most vulnerable population,  and she theorized that peace was necessary to their  liberation. Graham Du Bois articulated the same in her  letters and work during the peace movement. Both women  argued that war and militarism were an attack on the Black  home and that women were the most susceptible to the  exploitative labor conditions and violence that  predominated in military societies. While scholars have  often dismissed this focus on gender and home as  maternalist; Jones and Graham Du Bois recognized that the  home was the site of revolutionary potential and socialist  transformation, and they were instrumental in influencing  Du Bois’s own peace commitments. The personal was not just  political; the personal was the site for socialist  liberation and all three believed that socialism could  secure peace and equality.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1563153},
}