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- Claudia Jones is born
- Claudia Jones at a YCL meeting
- Claudia Jones focused with writing and making change as usual
- Claudia Jones, who grew up to be an afro-caribbean journalist and activist was born February 21 in 1915. She was born in Trinidad and when she was nine years old, her family emigrated to New York City In 1932, she was struck with tuberculosis, a condition that irreparably damaged her lungs and plagued her for the rest of her life. She graduated from high school and from then she started hero to becoming a hero..
- First time in prison
- At the age of 18, Claudia Jones became a member of the Young Communist League (YCL). Claudia Jones became involved in the international movement to defend the Scottsboro Boys, falsely charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama, nine young African American men faced execution in the form of legalized lynching. Jones wrote on the behalf of the Scottsboro Boys legal defense as a journalist for the YCL journal Weekly Review. Then later she wrote for the Communist Party newspaper The Daily World. Between (1931-1937)
- Claudia Jones feeling all the hate after her writings
- When Jones joined the political Party( YCL) in 1936, her new comrades quickly recognized her intellectual gifts and charisma, she inspired so many of them to work harder and further their knowledge. By 1945 she was the Negro Affairs Editor of The Daily Worker. She was also writing theoretical essays that made connections others missed. The most prescient, “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women” (1949)
- Claudia and others on trial
- Jones’s consistent stand against exploitation and oppression and her advocacy of socialism and world peace did not go unnoticed by the United States Government during the McCarthy era. Still never giving up Jones was arrested in 1948 and incarcerated for six months.
- She wrote a piece “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women” (1949), that argued for the inclusion of gender as well as race and class in work for justice: “To win the Negro woman for full participation in the anti-fascist, anti-imperialist coalition, to bring her militancy and participation to even greater heights in the current and future struggles against Wall Street imperialism, progressives must acquire political consciousness as regards her special oppressed status.” Jones proclaimed intersectionality long before it had a name. This brought joy to some but was very threatening to others
- Arrested again in 1951, in prison, she suffered her first heart attack. That same year, she was tried and convicted with 11 others of un-Ame can activities under the Smith Act. Jones along with three other women members of the Communist Party in a police van at the Federal Courthouse in New York City, June 20, 1951, en route to the Women’s House of Detention after arraignment on Smith Act frame-up charges of ‘criminal conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence.’
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