Photo & Document Archive

Dr. A. C. Jackson — restored formal studio portrait, the most detailed surviving photograph

c. 1910s

Dr. A. C. Jackson, Consulting Physician & Surgeon — fraternal card portrait. 'Chronic diseases and diseases of Women a Specialty. Calls made in the country. Phone 2573. In office at Night. Corner Greenwood and Archer.'

c. 1910s

Dr. A. C. Jackson — painted portrait

Dr. A. C. Jackson — colorized oval studio portrait; the image used in the A. C. Jackson Foundation seal

c. 1910s

Tulsa Star: Mrs. Dr. A. C. Jackson departs Tuesday for an extended trip to Nevada, California, and Oregon, and will take in the sights of the Panama Exposition — the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915

c. 1915

Tulsa Star: 'Colored Medics Royally Intertwined By the Local Profession — Sapulpa Man Elected President and Wewoka Gets the Next Annual Meeting' — Oklahoma Medical Federation annual meeting coverage; Dr. A. C. Jackson featured as state vice-president of the National Medical Association for Oklahoma

Tulsa Star: 'Jackson's Charlotte Sanitarium — For Chronic Diseases of Women and Men, Radium Baths. DR. A. C. JACKSON, Specialist. Wright's Building, Claremore, Okla.' — Dr. Jackson's early practice before establishing at Corner Greenwood and Archer in Tulsa

c. 1910–1915

Tulsa Star: 'Dr. A. C. Jackson is in Memphis, Tenn., where he is taking special work in surgery. Dr. B. A. Waynes is looking after his practice during his absence.' — Dr. Jackson returned to his family's home city for advanced surgical training

April 18

National Medical Association memorial, 1921: 'DR. JACKSON AND THE TULSA, OKLA., RIOTS — It is with a heavy heart that we comment on the tragic and untimely end of Dr. A. C. Jackson, of Tulsa, Okla., state vice-president of the N. M. A. for that state. This recognition came to him at the Atlanta meeting last August…'

1921

Tulsa Star: Formation of a Detention Home 'for the uplift of our race' — officers and board of directors listed, including Dr. Jackson S. A. Johnson and Capt. Jackson among Greenwood community leaders

Captain T. D. Jackson — 'a respected citizen of Tulsa. Capt. Jackson was born in Tolbert County Ga., in 1854, as a slave and fought in the rebel army along side of his master. Secured his discharge after the battle of Mt. Lookout at Chattanooga, and went to Memphis a short while thereafter.'

c. 1900s–1910s

Oklahoma Territorial Board of Health, Report of Licensed Physicians, 1904: 'Jackson, A. C., Guthrie; Meharry Med. Col., graduated Mar. 2, 1904' — Dr. Jackson's original medical license; he first practiced in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, before moving to Tulsa

1904

Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 10, No. 3, p. 142: Dr. A. C. Jackson, Tulsa, Okla., listed as discussant on 'Differential Diagnosis Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria' — scarlet fever and diphtheria were then leading causes of childhood mortality

National Medical Association group portrait — the professional society Black physicians formed in 1895 after the American Medical Association refused to admit them; Dr. Jackson served as NMA state vice-president for Oklahoma

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — Black Tulsans rounded up and transported under armed guard; rioters and the National Guard interned more than 6,000 Black residents in detention camps across the city during the two-day attack on Greenwood

June 1921

Postal Telegraph–Commercial Cable Company, June 1, 1921: telegram to Governor J. B. A. Robertson, Oklahoma City — calling for a public statement on the Tulsa massacre, demanding accountability, and reporting that negroes were being taken into the homes of white citizens for safety

June 1, 1921

Newspaper: 'Colored Y.W.C.A. Does Good Work — One of the Good Things That Grew Out of the Race Riot' — Greenwood YWCA rebuilt, offering classes in cooking, sewing, and millinery, an employment office, and a library room, serving survivors after the massacre

Post-1921

Advertisement: Pratt Bath House, 400 So. Missouri Ave., Claremore, Okla. — 'Health Baths: Radium Water Bath for Colored People. Booker T. Washington says the race should strive to keep in better health.' Context for Dr. Jackson's own Radium Bath practice at the Charlotte Sanitarium, Claremore.

The Chandler Coupe, 1920 — the luxury automobile that symbolized Black Wall Street prosperity; Greenwood's most successful residents owned vehicles of this caliber, a visible sign of accumulated wealth that enraged white Tulsans

1920

Ford Model T, 1915–1916 — the era's defining automobile, widely owned in Greenwood; Black car ownership in the district was one of the grievances cited by white rioters in 1921

1915–1916

'Down Through the 1920s' — front page of the Booker T. Washington High School reunion program, Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 20–23, 1978; an album of memories of classes from the late 1910s through the roaring 1920s — the generation that built Greenwood, survived the massacre, and rebuilt again

1978