Esther Cooper Johnson joined the ancestors—many of whom she shepherded to print—on August 23, 2022, two days after her 105th birthday in Arlington, Va.
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There’s a picture in the “Freedomways Reader”––which she edited––of her with Du Bois at the Southern Youth Negro Congress in 1946. She welcomed Du Bois to the podium where he delivered one of his most famous speeches “Behold the Land,” in Columbia, South Carolina. Her youthful presence as the preeminent scholar and historian personifies her place in the pantheon of the civil rights struggle.
Her political prowess and instincts were quickly recognized. She was assigned to the Voting Project in Birmingham, Alabama, and it was there that fate would introduce her to James Jackson, her future husband. He was involved in fighting for the rights of tobacco workers and for the next seven years they committed themselves to ending Jim Crow laws while giving the SNYC a presence across the South.
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