Remembering a tireless advocate: Johnny Jackson Jr.
 

https://media2.fdncms.com/gambit/ima...n_jr._1991.jpg 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.?