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Claudia Jones — Part 2
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, listed on @ handbiii -ULrUNENGy GS & Speaker S64 & SS0GNG Fons raesy xncomem
as “RALLY FOR A SECOND FRONT WOW" which was sponsored by the YOUNG COMMUNIST ~
LEAGUE and was held at Madisco Square Garden on Ooteber a 19420 - any
ae oO A winter tera c ogue of the JEW JERSEY LABOR SCHOOL -
fer 1965 listed the subject, CLA NES, as being one of the lecturers a :
in a course to be given that tern t school entitled: "THE ROLE OF THE
Wie BTS Went Pan Finn ah, oe ey) pages 39 : Srnowcsé
several changes and additions to the staff of the "Daily Nectar and "the _
"Worker". It was stated that CLAUDIA JONES became a member of the editorial ~
board of FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, INC,* as editor of negro affairs for the
- The ePeople's Voice" of ¢ January 5s 1946 © carried a picture
of the subject and a story captioneds "CLAUDIA JONES, NEW DAILY WORKER
EDITOR*. This article announced that the subject had become an editor fer
the "Daily Worker" and, in a brief biography for the eubject stated: “Claudia
Jones, coming to the Worker from the post of being secretary of the Commmist
Party, has been active in the struggles of the negro people for the past
ten years. She joined the youth movement when she was twenty and was elected
to the National Comittee of the Young Conmunist League at twenty-one. “,
‘During her most recent years, she has been editor of —
"The Weekly Review", organ of the Young Communist League, and editor of the
"Spotlight®, published by the "American Youth for Denocracy® « ;
The Negre paper, "NEW YORK AMSTERDAM MEWS®, carried fan ener
article stating that with the reorganization of the editorial staff of the
"Daily Worker,* CLAUDIA JONES, a long-time worker, both in the writing field
and in the left-wing group, had been added as a menber of the staff, This = |"
article stated that she is not quite thirty years old and is the youngest...
menber of the editorial board aad Wvery proud oY Ite This article stated ~~ .
that the subject was born in Trinidad, British West Indies, moved to the .... ,
United States at an early age and went to school in New York. It stated =." -
that in her last year of high school, she got @ job on & paper printed in in
the community and stayed unital her graduations It stated that many other
positions opened up for the subject after a short term in college, among thes
being @ position with the National Congress of Negro Youth.
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