Frankye Adams-Johnson Journal Collection

Title: Frankye Adams-Johnson Journal Collection
Subject: Islam; Faith; Religion; Black Muslims; Poetry; Health; Philosophy; Black nationalism; Black Panther Party; Black Power
Description: There are 4 journals in this collection. Frankye Adams-Johnson is the author of Journal 1 and her husband, Albert Washington (Nuh Abdul Qaiyum), is the author of the other three. He wrote in these journals while incarcerated in New York prisons for murder. The journals cover a wide range of topics and also include original poetry from both authors.
Creator: Frankye Adams-Johnson and Albert Washington (Nuh Abdul Qaiyum)
Date: Multi
Identifier: mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.journal
Rights: All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director.
Publisher: Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University
Source: The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson
Provenance: Frankye Adams-Johnson
Is Part Of: Frankye Adams-Johnson Black Panther Party Collection, ca. 1975-1995

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Frankye Adams-Johnson
Frankye Adams-Johnson was born in Pocahontas, Mississippi to a family of sharecroppers. As a teenager in Jackson, Mississippi, she participated in the NAACP, COFO, and SNCC as a youth organizer and was heavily involved in the Jackson civil rights movement in 1963. In 1964, she enrolled at Tougaloo College where she continued to be involved in civil rights demonstrations. After moving to New York in 1967, she co-organized the White Plains branch of the Black Panther Party. Adams-Johnson became a college professor in the 1980s, and returned to Jackson from New York in 1999, where she began work as an adjunct professor at Jackson State University in 1999. She became a full-time professor in 2003 until retiring in 2014.
Frankye Adams-Johnson Journal Collection: Journal 04, Nuh: Thoughts and Things
8.5"x12.5" Fragile. This journal was written in by Albert Washington (Nuh Abdul Qaiyum) while imprisoned and later by Frankye Adams-Johnson during multiple dates. Washington contributed original poetry and essays; quotes and lines from many writers and philosophers (including Khali Gibran, Ho Chi Minh, Robert A. Heinlein, Errico Malatesta, Idries Shah, and Anwar-i-Suhaili); writings from and thoughts on Hinduism, Sufism, and Islam; and, final lists including “chemicals and explosives” and “enemies of the people.” Frankye Adams-Johnson contributed original poetry; drafts of letters to her husband; and notes on the movement and meeting agendas.
Frankye Adams-Johnson Journal Collection: Journal 03, Nuh: Thoughts and Things
7"x8.5" Fragile. This journal was written in by Albert Washington (Nuh Abdul Qaiyum) during multiple dates. Most of the pages are original poetry. He also copied some poems and songs by Fouzi El Asmar, The Last Poets, George Jackson El Asmar, Zayd Malik Shakur, Agostinho Neto, John Brown; and Ethel Trew Dunlap. There are also several pages of Suras and other verses from the Quran.
Frankye Adams-Johnson Journal Collection: Journal 02, Thoughts and Things
7"x8.5" Fragile. This journal was written in by Frankye Adam-Johnson’s husband, Albert Washington (Nuh Abdul Qaiyum), during unknown dates. Washington writes about a variety of topics, including daily rituals such as yoga breathing exercises and pain inhibition; urban guerrilla warfare and applications for Black America and being a warrior; religions, including Islam, Taoism, and Buddhism; languages and alphabets, such as Arabic and Japanese; and politics and philosophy. He writes a lengthy piece about the concept of dunya. He also writes quotes and offers notes and reflection on a number of writers and philosophers including Thomas Paine, Raymond F. Jones, Clavell James, Elie Wiesel, William Ernest Henley, Abu Bakr, Marcus Garvey, Carlos Castaneda, and Louis L'Amour.
Frankye Adams-Johnson Journal Collection: Journal 01, Islamic Notebook
7.5"x9.75" Fragile. This journal was written in by Frankye Adams-Johnson on unknown dates. Items in the journal include: prayers; a list of goals for working with students on the subject of alcohol and drug abuse; writing in Arabic and lists of Islamic terms; rough draft of a resume for a prospective job in Philadelphia, PA; a poem; and a note to her imprisoned husband.