Aunt Molly Jackson was an American folk singer and union activist who was born in 1880. Her professional name was taken from the name of her second husband, Bill Jackson. She began learning songs from her great-grandmother at an early age and started writing protest songs in the late 1920s, including “I Am a Union Woman” and “Kentucky Miner's Wife”. Jackson made her recording debut (1931) with the song “Ragged, Hungry Blues”. She was a member of the folk revival in Greenwich Village and recorded for Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress. During the mid-1930s, she collaborated with figures such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Her discography includes the album The Songs and Stories of Aunt Molly Jackson (1961), which was released posthumously. She died in 1960.
