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Born August 2, 1945, in Washington, DC
Jewell Jackson McCabe is the founder of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. She was named Director of Public Affairs at the New York Urban Coalition in 1970, and was appointed chair of New York’s $205 million Jobs Training Partnership Council in 1983. McCabe became the first woman finalist for the presidency of the NAACP in 1993. She was appointed by President Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council’s Committee on Conscience in 1994.