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At the time, she was one of the 17 Black students at the university. Despite the low number of Black students on campus, Jackson emphasized in an interview that there was a strong sense of camaraderie between the few African American students.
18 Φεβ 2021 · Many Black residents, including several of Jackson’s brothers, found employment on the railroads as maids, cooks, railway porters, and waiters. “There were very few Negro or Black people in Oakland in 1918,” Jackson told Morris.
4 Αυγ 2020 · Ida Jackson remembers how her black students, whom she had encouraged to go into college when teaching in Prescott School in the late 1920s–1930, were discouraged by the counselor to follow in Jackson’s footsteps and become a teacher.
It is also what compelled Ida Louise Jackson’s mother to send her sons out of the cesspool of Anti-Black violence that permeated Mississippi and on to Northern California. In 1918, Jackson and her mother joined them and they settled in the city of Berkeley.
11 Οκτ 1996 · The life of Oakland's first black schoolteacher, Ida Louise Jackson, will be honored tomorrow at a fund-raising event for an elder care facility. Jackson, who died in March at age 93, joined...
12 Απρ 2001 · In 1926, Ida Jackson became the first Black teacher in the Oakland Public Schools. Thirteen years would go by before a second Black person was hired to teach. Jackson taught at Prescott Intermediate School for 15 years, despite a large group of white teachers and administrators who repeatedly tried to have her reassigned.
1 Φεβ 2023 · Narrated by Phylicia Rashad, Alpha Kappa Alpha: A Legacy of Service documents the 115-year history of one of the nation’s oldest African American women’s organizations. Since its founding at...
