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- Birth nameEsther Victoria Cooper
- Esther Cooper Jackson was born on August 21, 1917 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. She was married to James E. Jackson. She died on August 23, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseJames E. Jackson(1941 - 2007) (his death, 2 children)
- In 1961, along with W.E.B. Du Bois, she helped found Freedomways, a quarterly journal that was a forum for Black intellectuals. She became managing editor and published the works of such writers as Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni and Alice Walker.
- Civil rights activist, editor, and feminist.
- She attended Oberlin College, where she received a bachelor's degree in sociology. She received a master's degree in sociology from Fisk University.
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