BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " ESTHER COOPER " AN ACTIVE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ACTIVIST WHO WERE THE BRAVE PEOPLE WHO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

                                       BLACK                SOCIAL            HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     (1917--) came to New York City in 1952 after graduating from Oberlin College (1938) and Fisk University with a Masters degree in sociology (1940) and 7 years as a staff member of the Voting Project for the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SYNC) in Birmingham Alabama. SNYC registered voters and fought for equal housing and employment opportunities. Jackson was Executive Secretary of SYNC from 1942-46. Later she was the cofounder (with Shirley Graham Du Bois, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Louis E. Burnham) and managing editor of Freedom ways - an influential African-American political and cultural quarterly (1961-1986) that featured early literary and political writings by luminaries from W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Alice Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin. Artists in the magazine with cover art by such major artists as Jacob Laurence, Romare Beardon, and Elizabeth Catlett. For the 25 years of its publication, it was an important link between the northern and southern movements for civil rights - with both a national and international readership. It is also considered a precursor to the Black Arts movement in the 1960,s and 1970s. She was also the co-editor of W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Titan and Paul Roberson

: The Great Forerunner. She was married to influential political and labor activist James Jackson (1914-2007).