HIST 2381 (P01) - African American History: HistoryMakers Digital Archive: Library Database

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So, I worked in the Bursar's Office [at New York University] from nine to five, and went to school from six to ten. And I enjoyed it, it was fun. But I was deeply concerned, because I was separated from my son; he was at home with my family during that time. Fortunately, I lived at the Judson. The Judson was a residence hall for students at NYU, and it was right there at Washington Square. And one night when I came home from class, I had a telegram from an ex-classmate of mine at Howard University [Washington, D.C.] offering me a job as Dean of Women and teacher of Social Science. And I got in touch with my father [Robert James Jackson]. I didn't, I was just, you know, making enough money to keep myself going. And he sent me money to go from New York to Texas, to Butler College [Tyler, Texas]. And my aunt had a friend who worked at the airport, so I got a reduced ticket on his pass and flew out of New York on a night flight and got to Dallas, Texas early in the morning. And they met me in Dallas and drove me from Dallas to Tyler, Texas, where I was to teach.

Now, what year is this?

That's one of the things I was forgetting, the years. Butler, 1952.

Okay.

Because I stayed at Butler from 1952 to 1954. And then I resigned, because I was not in a situation there to which I could take my son, and I came home to get him. And I taught English a year at the Howard High School in Georgetown [South Carolina]. And then I got another telegram from Texas offering me a position at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas as Director of Student Life and instructor in Social Science. And I took that, because instruction and Social Science would include the History. And I taught there on, let's see... I taught at Jarvis from 1955 to 1958. And the latter part of teaching at Jarvis Christian College, I had given up being Director of Student Life because I only really wanted to teach. And in 1958, I moved from Jarvis Christian College to Texas College in Tyler, to teach History. And I stayed there from '58' [1958] to 1963. And in 1963, I went to Prairie View A and M, that was at that time Prairie View A and M College [Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College in Prairie View, Texas], and later became Prairie View A and M University. But I stayed there until I retired in 1979. So, you see, I was really in Texas from 1952 until 1988. I retired from Prairie View in '79' [1979], but I stayed in Texas. And I taught for a time at the Houston Community College after retirement. And then in 1988, I came back to South Carolina.

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