Remembering a tireless advocate: Johnny Jackson Jr.

admin · 02-01-2018, 08:33 PM

There aren?t many first-generation civil rights leaders left in New Orleans, and we lost another one Jan. 24 when former City Councilman and state Rep. Johnny Jackson Jr. died after a battle with cancer at the age of 74.

A tireless advocate for civil and human rights his entire life, Jackson was a consummate activist who reluctantly entered public life after serving as a community organizer in the Desire-Florida neighborhoods of New Orleans? hardscrabble Ninth Ward.

Jackson grew up in Desire and knew its people and its struggles first hand.?

02-01-2018, 08:33 PM	#1
admin Site Admin Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 11,971 Blog Entries: 2	Remembering a tireless advocate: Johnny Jackson Jr. There aren?t many first-generation civil rights leaders left in New Orleans, and we lost another one Jan. 24 when former City Councilman and state Rep. Johnny Jackson Jr. died after a battle with cancer at the age of 74. A tireless advocate for civil and human rights his entire life, Jackson was a consummate activist who reluctantly entered public life after serving as a community organizer in the Desire-Florida neighborhoods of New Orleans? hardscrabble Ninth Ward. Jackson grew up in Desire and knew its people and its struggles first hand.?