Brief Biography Of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Founder – Emory Overton Jackson

Emory Overton Jackson was born on the 8th of September 1908, in Buena Vista, Georgia, to a bricklayer, Will Burt Jackson, and Lovie Jones Jackson. He had seven siblings. At eleven years, Emory Jackson relocated to Birmingham enclave of Enon Ridge, west of Birmingham South College. He attended and graduated from the first public high…