@article{867124,
      note = {Date range of documents: 1932-2000.},
      author = {Jackson, James E., and Jacskson, Esther Cooper.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/867124},
      title = {The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party  papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson. [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Gale, a part of Cengage Learning,},
      abstract = {James E. and Esther Cooper Jackson are African American  communists and civil rights activists, best known for their  role in founding and leading the Southern Negro Youth  Congress (1937-48). James Jackson was head of the Communist  Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) Louisiana  state organization in 1946, and was a Party organizer in  the automobile industry in Detroit from 1947-50. He then  moved to New York, becoming the Southern Director for the  Communist Party. He later served as the Communist Party's  Educational Director and as International Affairs  Secretary, retiring in 1991. Esther Cooper Jackson served  as Executive Secretary of the Southern Negro Congress from  1942-1946. She also co-founded and served as the managing  editor from 1961-1986 of Freedomways, an influential  African American political and cultural quarterly.},
      recid = {867124},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      address = {Farmington Hills, Mich. :},
      year = {2012},
}