Crusading Birmingham Editor Emory O. Jackson Focus Of MLK Memorial Lecture

By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times

Emory Overton Jackson was a man “born for battle” and a “roll-up-your-sleeves kind of journalist” during a crucial period in history, said author Kimberley Mangun, during a lecture Jan. 19 in Birmingham.

Mangun is author of “Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940–1975,” published in 2019.

She delivered the 17th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Linn-Henley Research Library, co-sponsored by the Birmingham Public Library and the Birmingham Association of Black Journalists.

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