Jackson EstherCooper

African-American civil rights activist and social worker who worked with Shirley Graham Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Strong, and Louis E. Burnham. She was one of the founding editors of the magazine Freedomways, a theoretical, political and literary journal published from 1961 to 1985. Uniting the Southern and Northern US civil rights struggles of the 1960s with an international viewpoint taking in Pan-Africanism and other cultural and political currents, the magazine is often viewed as a precursor of the Black Arts Movement. She also served as organizational and executive secretary at the Southern Negro Youth Congress. In 1952, she moved to New York City where she met her husband, James E. Jackson (1914-2007) and they had two daughters. Esther Cooper Jackson turned 100 in August 2017, and died in Boston two days after her 105th birthday, on 23 August 2022. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less