Freedomways Vol. 20 No. 2

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An issue of Freedomways magazine, Volume 20, Number 2, 1980. The front cover has an off-white background with white type inside a bright yellow-orange block at the top that reads: [Freedomways / A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT]. The cover features three edge-to-edge yellow-orange tinted photographs, designed by John Devine, capturing sociopolitical current events. The top photograph shows President Jimmy Carter with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris touring the South Bronx. The middle photograph shows people on unemployment lines and the bottom photograph is an image of Three Mile Isle nuclear plant. In the top left corner of the cover in large black type is a caption, [In a new decade, the struggle continues]. The interior consists of 112 pages made up of white paper with black ink. The pages contain articles, poetry, images, and book reviews.

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