The Sculptor of a New Era In the vibrant, intellectual crucible of early twentieth-century Washington, D.C., a profound voice emerged from the clay and bronze. May Howard Jackson, born in 1877, was far more than a mere practitioner of form; she was a sculptor of social consciousness. As a central figure within the African American intellectual circles of the 1910s through the 1930s, her work became a cornerstone of the New Negro Movement, a period defined by a burgeoning sense of racial pride and cultural reclamation. Her life, though tragically shortened by her death in 1931, was dedicated…