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Gertrude Newsome Jackson (born 1923) was an American community activist in the Delta communities via the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the African-American Civil Rights Movement. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on December 20, 2012. ==Early life and education== Jackson was born in 1923 in Madison, Illinois, and was one of ten children born to the Newsome's.〔Library of Congress.〕 With six brothers and four sisters there was a full household. After Gertrude's grandfather died, her father moved the family to Gum Bottom, Arkansas, to take over the eighty-eight-acre cotton farm where she usually stayed in the house but would sometimes come out and help pick cotton.〔Library of Congress.〕 Jackson graduated in the tenth grade since that was the highest grade able to be completed in Arkansas and several years later returned to earn her GED and continued for two years in college.〔Library of Congress.〕 She married Earlis "Hog" Jackson in 1943 and they created a family of nine children〔Library of Congress.〕All nine chilcren graduated from high school and seven have college degrees.〔University of Arkansas at Little Rock.〕 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「Gertrude Newsome Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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