| Summary: | Civil rights activist and city administrator Myrna Carter Jackson was born on April 9, 1941, in Birmingham, Alabama. She skipped two grades and entered Parker High School in Birmingham at age 12, graduating in 1958. In 1963, Jackson attended a "Monday Mass" meeting at 16th Street Baptist Church, organized by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, and received instructions from Andrew Young, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, and Reverend Abraham Woods, among others. After becoming involved in the Birmingham Children's Crusade, Jackson was jailed twice. She was fined $100 and placed in jail for 5 days in April 1963, and spent 9 days in jail in May 1963. Jackson would go on to serve as the first vice president of the Metro Birmingham Chapter of the NAACP, in addition to serving as a commissioner on the Birmingham District Housing Authority board.
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