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Esther Cooper Jackson (Esther Victoria Cooper) was born on 21 August, 1917 in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., is an activist. Discover Esther Cooper Jackson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 105 years old?

Popular As Esther Victoria Cooper
Occupation Civil rights activist, social worker
Age 105 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 21 August, 1917
Birthday 21 August
Birthplace Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
Date of death August 23, 2022
Died Place Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Who Is Esther Cooper Jackson's Husband?

Her husband is James E. Jackson (m. 1941-2007)

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Esther Cooper Jackson Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Esther Cooper Jackson worth at the age of 105 years old? Esther Cooper Jackson’s income source is mostly from being a successful activist. She is from United States. We have estimated Esther Cooper Jackson's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

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2022

Jackson and her husband, James E. Jackson, married in 1941, and had two children. They moved to Brooklyn in 1951, and remained married until his death in 2007. In 2015, Jackson moved to a retirement facility in Boston, where she died on August 23, 2022, two days after her 105th birthday.

2004

After graduate school, Jackson became a member of the staff of the Voting Project in Birmingham, Alabama, for the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC). While working with SNYC she met her future husband James E. Jackson, a Marxist theoretician who would work as a labor organizer and an official in the Communist Party USA. In a 2004 interview, she explained that her husband and the SNYC had in 1937 helped tobacco workers in Virginia successfully agitate for an eight-hour day and pay increases. The tobacco workers held the first strike in Virginia since 1905, and their gains, according to C. Alvin Hughes, "helped SNYC earn a following among the black working class in the South".

1961

In New York of 1961, Jackson became managing editor of Freedomways, created by Esther Jackson, along with Louis Burnham, Jack O'Dell from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and writer Lorraine Hansberry. Freedomways was the central theoretical journal of the 20th century black arts and intellectual movement in the United States. From its launch in 1961, it attracted historians, sociologists, economists, artists, workers, and students to write on black history, heritage, and culture. Jackson would call it "a tool for the liberation of our people". Freedomways was a globally influential political, arts and intellectual journal that published international poets such as Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott, articles by African leaders including Kwame Nkrumah, Julius K. Nyerere, Agostinho Neto, and Jomo Kenyatta and Caribbean leftist C. L. R. James, as well as African-American authors such as James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Paul Robeson, Nikki Giovanni, and Lorraine Hansberry. The most prominent African-American artists like Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Elizabeth Catlett contributed cover art gratis to support the magazine, which was read worldwide. 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.

1950

Originally intending only to stay for one summer, Jackson remained in Alabama for seven years, engaged in the struggle to bring down Jim Crow segregation. For seven years as a prominent leader of SNYC, Esther Cooper Jackson worked with her husband, Louis and Dorothy Burnham, Ed Strong, Sallye and Frank Davis—parents of the Davis sisters, Angela and Fania—and numerous others, conducting many campaigns promoting the rights of blacks and poor whites. SNYC's agitation for the integration of the public transportation systems important in preparation for the struggles later on in the 1950s and 1960s.

1945

In 1945 she was a delegate to the World Youth Congress in London and served as the chairman of the American Subcommittee on Problems of Dependent Peoples.

1917

Esther Victoria Cooper Jackson (August 21, 1917 – August 23, 2022) was an American civil rights activist and social worker. She worked with Shirley Graham Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Strong, and Louis E. Burnham, and was one of the founding editors of the magazine Freedomways, a theoretical, political and literary journal published from 1961 to 1985. She also served as organizational and executive secretary at the Southern Negro Youth Congress.

Jackson was born on August 21, 1917, in Arlington, Virginia, to George Posea Cooper and Esther Georgia Irving Cooper, who served as president of the Arlington branch of the NAACP. She attended segregated schools as a child. She earned a bachelor's degree at Oberlin College in 1938 and a master's degree in sociology from Fisk University in 1940. Her 1940 thesis was "The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism". Upon graduation, she received a Rosenwald Fellowship to support a study on the attitudes of black youth toward World War II. She had been planning to conduct the study as part of her studies for a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago.