Family of Arthur JACKSON and Margie MITCHELL

Husband: Arthur JACKSON

Wife: Margie MITCHELL

	Margie MITCHELL, "Kevin_Margie_Gladys"

Note on Wife: Margie MITCHELL

Marjorie Jackson passed away Sunday, October 12th at her home of heart failure. Marjorie was born February 15,1926, in Detroit, Michigan to Leroy and Louise Mitchell. She graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1944, and attended Wayne State University.

Marjorie married Thomas F. King Sr. and moved to Kansas City, Missouri in the early 1950's.

Marjorie was dedicated and determined. While raising two sons, Kenneth Kamau King and Thomas F. King, Jr. and working as a seamstress in the garment industry, she became a union organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. She was an early participant in Civil Rights demonstrations in the Kansas City area in the 1950's and '60's. She organized several "sit ins' in downtown stores that refused to serve Negroes. She encouraged people not to shop where they could not work or eat. Marjorie represented the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. She organized and marched. As a result of these activities, Margie, as she was affectionately called, was invited to Syracuse University School of Social Work to participate in community organization training.

Upon the completion of this training, she returned to Kansas City as a Director of ACTION, the federal agency for volunteer service. In this role Margie directed the activites of numerous volunteer organizations. She retired from federal service with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision.

Marjorie and Arthur G. Jackson were married in Novermber of 1972.

Marjorie was a founding member of The Congress of Racial Equality and a member of the Kansas City Chapter of the NAACP. She was a founder of the Kansas City chapter of the National Welfare Rights Organization. Also included in her life's activities were Bible study at Second Baptist Church, water aerobics classes and cancer support groups.

Marjorie leaves to mourn in her Homegoing: her husband Arthur Jackson Sr., two sons, Kenneth Kamau and Thomas, a step-son, Arthur Jackson, Jr., two daughers-in-law, Carolyn and Sharon, three grandchildren, Darryl, Jabari, and Ayana King, two great grandchildren, Darryl and Duncan King, one brother, Leroy Mitchell Jr., and a host of nieces and nephews.

She will be remembered for her love of family, friends, books and flower gardens.