Esther Cooper Jackson, Date of Birth

Esther Cooper Jackson

Civil rights activist

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1917

Profession: writer, activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Esther Cooper Jackson (born August 21, 1917 in Arlington, Virginia ) is an African-American civil rights activist, former social worker and, along with Shirley Graham Du Bois, W.
E.
B.
Du Bois, Edward Strong, and Louis E.
Burnham, was one of the founding editors of the magazine Freedomways, a theoretical, political and literary journal published from 1961 to 1985.
She was married to James E.
Jackson (1914–2007), an influential labor activist.