Mississippi Movement:

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Jackson, Mae. Interviewed by Dawn K. Darwin. February 20, 1993, in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
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Before returning to Waco, Mae Jackson worked in the civil rights movement down in the Mississippi Delta. Here, she remembers her work with women like Fannie Lou Hamer and Unita Blackwell, whose activism and influence shaped her during her time there.

This file appears in: Dr. Mae Jackson

By Allie Roberts
Born the daughter of educators in segregated Mexia, Texas, in 1941, Mae Allison Johnson developed an early understanding of the significance of education and equality. Her parents, Allison Johnson and Eula King, met while working at a small country…