Jackson (Ellen Swepson) is born in Boston

The daughter of David and Marguerite (Booker) Swepson, Ellen Jackson graduates from Girls Latin School, Boston State College, and subsequently receives a master’s degree from Harvard University. She marries Hugo Jackson in 1954, and becomes involved in efforts to improve the Boston public schools. With Betty Johnson, she founds Operation Exodus in 1965,* serves as its executive director (1965-1969). and subsequently works for Freedom House, the Massachusetts Department of Education, and as a dean at Northeastern University (1978-1997). She dies on November 20, 2005, and is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery.