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The obituary of Paul L. Jackson, Philadelphia dentist.

Dr. Paul L. Jackson G’33, Philadelphia, a retired assistant clinical professor at the Temple University School of Dentistry who had maintained a practice in West Philadelphia for 28 years; Jan. 17. Following discharge from the U.S. Army after service in the Second World War, he taught dentistry at Howard University in Washington before setting up practice in Philadelphia in 1947.

The Pennsylvania Gazette, July/August 2002.

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In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Joseph Jackson, 37, minister; wife Annie, 45; and children Eloise, 8, Joseph, 5, Paul L., 2, and John, 2 months.

In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 616 Green Street, Joseph S. Jackson, 48, minister; wife Annie H., 45; and children Mary E., 18, Joseph S., Jr., 15, Paul L., 11, and John B., 9.

In the 1930 census of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania: at 1304 Carpenter Street, North Carolina-born Paul Jackson, 23, laborer on wharves, listed as a nephew of Thomas and Louise Duncan.

In the 1940 census of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania: at 5222 Race Street, Paul Jackson and wife Catherine, both public school teachers.

In 1950, Paul Jackson applied for bonus compensation paid by Pennsylvania to honorably discharged veterans. He identified Annie H. Jackson, 618 East Green Street, Wilson, as his only living parent.

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Paul Lawrence Jackson died 17 January 2002. On the 24th, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran his obituary:

Paul L. Jackson, 94, a dentist in West Philadelphia for 28 years, died last Thursday of pneumonia at Stapeley Hall, a retirement home in Germantown. 

Born and raised in Wilson, N.C., Dr. Jackson received a bachelor’s degree from Livingstone College in North Carolina. He received a master’s degree in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933. He received his dental degree from Temple University in 1943, and then served in the Army during World War II. 

After his discharge, he taught dentistry at Howard University in Washington before establishing a practice at his home in West Philadelphia in 1947. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Jackson was an assistant clinical professor at Temple University School of Dentistry. 

He was a member of the New Era Dental Society, the Philadelphia County and American Dental Associations, and the Omega Psi Phi and Chi Delta Mu fraternities. He was active in the Boy Scouts and was a former trustee of Alleyne Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in West Philadelphia. 

He is survived by his wife of 11 years, Margaret Trummell Williams Jackson; his first wife, Catherine McCaine Jackson, to whom he was married for 56 years, died in 1990. 

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Feb. 9 at Stapeley Hall, 6300 Greene St. Burial arrangements are private. 

Joseph S. Jackson, Jr.

From Who’s Who in Colored America, 7th edition (1950) —

JACKSON, JOSEPH SYLVESTER, federal civil servant; b. Wilson, N.C., June 4, 1904; s. Joseph S. and Annie (Horton) Jackson (divorced). A.B. Livingston Coll., Salisbury, N.C., 1928; grad. study, New York Sch. of Soc. Work, 1928-29; U. of Washington, 1939; U. of Chicago, 1939-40. Exec. sec., Seattle (Wash.) Urban League 1930-1938; reviewer, tenant selection div., Chicago (Ill.) Housing Authority, 1940-42; adm. officer, rent div., O.P.A., Chicago, 1942-48; organizer and operation asst., office of Housing Expediter, 1948-present; mem. Am. Assn. Soc. Workers, Natl. Assn. Housing Officials, Natl. Urban League, N.A.A.C.P. Author: What To Tell Them, voc. guidance booklet for Seattle pub. schs., 1935. African Methodist Episcopal. Democrat. Business address: Temporary E. Bldg., 4th St. and Adams Drive, S.W., Washington D.C. Home address: 1712 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

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From www.blackpast.org:

Joseph Sylvester Jackson became the first executive secretary of the newly founded Seattle Urban League when it received its charter from the national headquarters in New York in 1930.  Little is known about Jackson before 1928.  That year he graduated from Livingston College in Salisbury, North Carolina.  In September, 1928 he entered the New York School of Social Work as a Fellow of the National Urban League.  He also worked  briefly at the Brooklyn Urban League.   After arriving in Seattle from New York, Jackson quickly became a “one man professional staff,” and plunged the organization into working on a number of problems facing the city’s small black community at the beginning of the Great Depression.  In his first year Jackson initiated community health and recreation programs such as Negro Health Week, the Vocational Opportunity Program, and presentations to white and Asian groups about the League and black Seattle.  In 1931 Jackson organized a black branch of the Unemployed Citizen’s League and two years later, a secretarial school. Despite his busy schedule of Urban League activities, Jackson also took time to play the lead actor in the Seattle Negro Repertory Theater’s 1933 production of In Abraham’s Bosom at the Seattle Repertory Playhouse. Throughout the 1930s, Joseph S. Jackson accumulated statistics on the education, health and employment of black Seattle. In 1938 Jackson lead a public campaign to remove three Seattle police officers who were accused of causing the death of Berry Lawson, a hotel waiter.  Jackson’s investigation of the Lawson incident and his public challenge to officials to act in the matter led to the prosecution of the three officers.   On June 10, 1938, the three officers were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years in prison. In 1939, Jackson left Seattle.

And here’s a link to a piece promoting Seattle that Jackson write for the Urban League’s Opportunity magazine.

And from an entry on a website chronicling the Great Depression in Washington State:

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In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Joseph Jackson, 37, minister; wife Annie, 45; and children Eloise, 8, Joseph, 5, Paul L., 2, and John, 2 months.

In the 1920 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 616 Green Street, Joseph S. Jackson, 48, minister; wife Annie H., 45; and children Mary E., 18, Joseph S., Jr., 15, Paul L., 11, and John B., 9.