Claudia Jones Memorial photograph collection
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Abstract
The collection (1955-1964) depicts the activities of political activist and communist Claudia Jones after her deportation from the United States to Great Britain. The collection consists of individual portraits of Jones; views of Jones attending conferences, meetings, social events and receptions, and other political gatherings; views of Jones with friends, colleagues and acquaintances, mostly during trips abroad; and individual portraits and candid shots of various friends and colleagues. Views of Jones's funeral and funeral procession (1964) are also depicted. The collection includes a single view of Jones with some of the other Smith Act defendants in New York (1953).
Of note are views of Jones's trip to the People's Republic of China (ca. 1964); Jones, with Communist Party U.S.A. official Henry Winston, in the Soviet Union (1962); and views of Jones addressing the 10th World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, in Tokyo, Japan (1964). Individuals depicted in the collection include actor and activist Paul Robeson; Robeson's wife and fellow activist Eslanda Goode Robeson; civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois in Ghana; Guyanese political leader Cheddi Jagan; Prime Minister Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago; and Pan-Africanist and feminist Amy Ashwood Garvey, the first wife of Marcus Garvey.
Dates / Origin
Date created: 1939
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Claudia Jones Memorial Collection