Hezekiah Jackson

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Hezekiah Jackson IV (born c. 1959; died August 6, 2024) was a long-time president of the Metro Birmingham NAACP. He also served as president of the Inglenook neighborhood association, the and East Birmingham community, and the Birmingham Citizens Advisory Board. He worked as a Birmingham City Council administrative assistant and later as president and CEO of The Answer Group

In the 2005 Birmingham City Council election, Jackson lost to Maxine Herring Parker in a runoff in District 4. Incumbent Gwen Sykes finished fourth.

In 2015 Jackson was involved with the Team Seven PAC's efforts to have the 1930s Jefferson County Courthouse murals removed or covered due to their depictions of African-American workers, both in slavery and under racist industrial labor conditions.

Beginning late that same year, Jackson was paid by the Oliver Robinson Foundation for "community outreach" efforts relating to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's work to test soils in and around the 35th Avenue Superfund Site. He attended neighborhood meetings with Amanda Robinson expressing distrust of the federal agency. State Representative Oliver Robinson later pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to oppose the EPA on behalf of the Drummond Corporation and their attorneys, Balch & Bingham.

Jackson has denied the allegations of his involvement in Drummond's scheme, and he was never criminally charged. The NAACP suspended Jackson pending a hearing. Dorothea Crosby succeeded him as president in late 2018.

Jackson died in August 2024.

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