The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Esther Jackson

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Esther Jackson

11/15/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2018.213

Civic activist Esther Jackson (1917 - ) worked for social reform organizations like the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC), the Progressive Party, and the Civil Rights Congress before serving as managing editor for Freedomways journal from 1961 to 1985. Jackson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 11/15/2018, in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 09m 56s

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Esther Jackson

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Civic activist Esther Jackson was born on August 21, 1917 in Arlington, Virginia to Esther Irving and George Cooper. She graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. in 1934, and enrolled at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where she earned her B.A. degree in social work. Jackson went on to earn her M.A. degree in sociology at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1940. Her thesis,The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism, examined the issues face...