Born in Mankato, Minn., and a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Marvel Jackson Cooke moved to New York in 1926 and worked as secretary for W. E. B. DuBois, editor of The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Later, she worked for The Amsterdam News and […]

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