Civil rights leader Esther Cooper Jackson

Esther Cooper Jackson

Living place: Virginia

Birthday: 21-8-1917

Population of US 1917: 103,268,000

Global rank: #82072

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Civil rights leader Esther Cooper Jackson profile

Who is Civil rights leader Esther Cooper Jackson?
Most remembered as a founder of the African-American magazine Freedomways, this civil rights activist and author wrote articles such as "This Is My Husband: Fighter for His People, Refugee Politics" and "The Negro Woman Domestically In Relation to Trade Unionism."
Her influential magazine influenced the Black Movement art of the 1960s.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After graduating from Oberlin College, she earned a master's degree in sociology from Fisk University.

Family life info

She grew up in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of an activist mother who served as president of the Northern Virginia branch of the NAACP. She met her husband, fellow activist James E. Jackson, while working for the Southern Negro Youth Convention in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Civil rights leader Esther Cooper Jackson?
Her Freedomways magazine published works by Alice Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, and other prominent African-American writers.

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When was Civil rights leader Esther Cooper Jackson born?
Esther Cooper Jackson was born in 21-8-1917, death year is , at the age of 107.
Where is Civil rights leader Esther Cooper Jackson's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Esther Cooper Jackson was born in Virginia, . is a Civil rights leader, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Esther Cooper Jackson's global rank is 82072 and whose rank is 161 in list of famous Civil rights leader. Population of US in 1917 is about 103,268,000 persons.
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Events in 1917 and 21-8

Events in US in the birth year of Esther Cooper Jackson

  • U.S. declares war with Germany (Apr. 6). Background: World War I
  • "I Want You." James Montgomery Flagg's poster, featuring Uncle Sam and based on a 1914 British poster, attracts thousands of U.S. recruits to WWI duty.
  • Between ten thousand and fifteen thousand blacks silently walk down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence (July 28). Background: civil rights

Birthday Esther Cooper Jackson (21-8) in history

  • Day 21-8 year 1680: The Pueblo Indians drove out the Spaniards and took possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • Day 21-8 year 1831: Preacher Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Virginia.
  • Day 21-8 year 1858: The famous debates between Senator Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln began in Illinois.
  • Day 21-8 year 1911: The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.
  • Day 21-8 year 1940: Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City.
  • Day 21-8 year 1945: Harry S. Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
  • Day 21-8 year 1959: Hawaii became the 50th state in the United States.
  • Day 21-8 year 1983: Corazon Aquino's husband Benigno, who was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos's chief political opponent, was assassinated.
  • Day 21-8 year 1991: Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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