it all in our community...She showed us that something could be done." Later work She served as national director of the Black Women's Community Development Foundation in Washington DC from 1969 to 1974. In the early years of busing in Boston, she was a member of the Citywide Coordinating Council, established by US District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. to oversee the desegregation of the public schools. She also worked for the Massachusetts Department of Education as a project director for the Title IV program in the early 1970s. From 1974 to 1978, she worked with Muriel S. Snowden as director of the Freedom House Institute on Schools and Education, which offered children's educational programs and provided information on school busing. From 1978 to 1997, she served as the dean and director of affirmative action at Northeastern University. Jackson was a delegate to several White House Conferences. In 1972 she was a delegate and member of the Democratic Platform Committee, and gave a convention speech titled "Rights, Power and Social Justice." She was involved with many charitable and civic organizations, including the Young Women's Leadership Development Program, the Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the American Association for Higher Education, the Governor's Community Development Coordinating Council, and Boston Children's Hospital, among others. She died of a stroke at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston on November 20, 2005. After her death, Jackson's friend and fellow activist Sarah-Ann Shaw said to a reporter, "She was a person with strong opinions, who was willing to fight for things in order to create a better society. Young people have no idea of the contributions that she and others made in that era." Awards and honors The Ellen S. Jackson Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education was established in Jackson's honor in 1975, and a day-care center on Mission Hill was named for her in 1983. She received the Mary Hudson Onley Achievement Award in 2000, and received honorary doctorates from Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, Wheelock College, and Bridgewater State College. Her memoirs are included in the Black Women Oral History Project at Radcliffe College, and she is remembered in connection with Freedom House on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Publications References External links Ellen Jackson Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College 1935 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American educators African-American activists Boston State College alumni