💁🏾‍♀️(Submitted by Imani B. ‘20) 

🎵 Director of music department at Booker T. Washington High School for 12 to 14 years. 

🎵Composed the school song, “Washington, O Washington!”
🎵Could play two instruments and two different songs at same time 

🎵Played for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Jimmy Carter 

🎵Played at the memorial services for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his close friend, in 1945.
🎵Remodeled his house to resemble President Roosevelt’s house in Warm Springs, GA. 

🎵Along with Mayor William B. Hartsfield, was instrumental in getting the name of the street on which Jackson lived changed from “C” Street to White House Drive. 

🎵Appointed to the state Board of Corrections in 1969 becoming he first black man to hold that distinction in Georgia since Reconstruction
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Image Credit: Life Magazine
Source: Neighborhood Portraits: Men and Women Who Built and Inspired Our Community