Dorothy Jackson was an ‘urban saint’ and ‘trailblazing African American female leader’

Akron Deputy Mayor Dorothy Jackson hugs Glenisha Brooks, 16, at the Akron Alternative School and Teen-age Parent Center.

Akron’s first female deputy mayor died Sunday after a long illness, three days into hospice care and 16 days shy of her 88th birthday. “She was an urban saint,” said Tom Sawyer, a former state senator who, as mayor of Akron, named Dorothy Ola Jackson deputy mayor of intergovernmental […]

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