Mae Jackson Biography
Mae Jackson is African-American, Poet and activist. Jackson’s first piece of writing was a short tale that appeared in June 1969 in Negro Digest with the title “I Remember Omar.
Mae Jackson Age
Mae was born on 3 January 1946 in the United States of America. She is 78 years old as of January 2024.
Mae Jackson Family
Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Mae Jackson Husband- Spouse
Mae is confidential when it comes to matters concerning his personal life. She has not yet shared her relationship or marital status with the public.
Mae Jackson Career
She started out as an activist young. She became a part of the 11-year-old NAACP boycott of New Orleans’ variety stores. Later, her family relocated to Brooklyn, where she was employed by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) branch in Brooklyn. After converting to Islam, she was expelled from Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School in Brooklyn. Two weeks later, she missed her high school graduation because she was at a protest. Jackson was employed as a national staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and attended the New School for Social Research in 1966–1967. In January 1969, she participated in the founding of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee. Jackson’s first piece of writing was a short tale that appeared in June 1969 in Negro Digest with the title “I Remember Omar.” Her 1969 collection Can I Poet With You won the 1970 Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award from Negro Digest magazine (then known as Black World). Broadside Press, owned by Dudley Randall, published her.
Her poems appeared in three anthologies: The poems of Black America (1974), Black Out Loud (1971), and Black Spirits (1971). She has contributed articles to publications such as Black Scholar, Essence, Black World, and Black Creation. Jackson began working as a teacher in the early 1970s, first as a replacement for a kindergarten and nursery teacher before moving on to teach junior high school creative writing. In 1974–75, she was a part of the Brewery Puppet Troupe. In 1975 she became a court social worker at Brooklyn Family Court. She has also worked as an instructor at Cell Block Theatre, Bronx Men’s House of Detention, Queens Men’s House of Detention, Metropolitan Correctional Facilities, Loft Film and Theatre Center, and South Jamaica Senior Citizens Center.
Mae Jackson Net Worth
Mae has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.
Mae Jackson Books- Author
- The Harriet Tubman Story
- When Kawanza Comes
- The Jackson Five Meets Malcolm X
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be…
- Can I Poet With You