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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.〔("Freedomways (1961-1985)", BlackPast.org. )〕 She was married to James E. Jackson (1914–2007), an influential labor activist. ==Life== Jackson came from a family active in their community. Throughout Esther's youth, her mother served as President of the Arlington branch of the NAACP and was involved in the struggle for civil rights, particularly in efforts to achieve equality in the quality of children's education.〔(Interview with Esther Cooper Jackson, ''New York Voices of the Civil Rights Movement''. )〕 Esther attended segregated schools as a child but went on to study at Oberlin College and to earn 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." Of her upbringing and family, Jackson recounted: 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. In an interview with Ian Rocksborough-Smith in 2004, Jackson explained that her husband James Jackson and the SNYC had in 1937 helped tobacco workers in Virginia successfully agitate for an 8-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".〔(Rocksborough-Smith, Ian, "Bearing the Seeds of Struggle", MA thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2005. )〕 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. In 1952, she moved to New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esther Cooper Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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