This collection contains 161 pieces of correspondence in various sizes and conditions written at various dates by multiple authors. Many of the letters are written to Frankye Adams-Johnson by her husband, Nuh Abdul Qaiyum, who was incarcerated at the time of the correspondence. There are also letters to and from other people within the movement as well as letters to and from unknown authors. Within the correspondence are items like meeting agendas; original poetry; business dealings; a complaint against the NYPD; and much more. Major themes throughout the correspondence are the Black Panther Party; Islam; law enforcement; incarceration; prison; the freedom struggle; Black Power; liberation; family; Africa; political prisoners; love; revolution; politics; justice; and more.
Identifier
mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.cor
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
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.
Fragile. 8"x12.5" 1 page.
A note from from Frankye Adams-Johnson (Malika) to Nuh Abdul Qaiyum. The note outlines some points to a conversation she wants to have with him.
Fair. 8"x3.5" 5 pages.
A letter from Nuh Abdul Qaiyum to Frankye Adams-Johnson (Malika). Page 5 is a scrap piece of paper with a short poem about love.