Title

Harrisburg's historic African American community: An interview with Calobe Jackson Jr.

Authors

James B. LaGrand, Messiah UniversityFollow
David Pettegrew, Messiah UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Abstract

Copyright © 2020 The Pennsylvania Historical Association. This excerpted oral history with Calobe Jackson Jr., prominent citizen and local historian, discusses Harrisburg's African American community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relationships between the city's black and white population, the City Beautiful movement, and the Commonwealth Monument Project.

Comments

Originally published as:

LaGrand, James B., and David Pettegrew (2020). Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Calobe Jackson Jr., Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 87(1), 212-224. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.87.1.0212

Recommended Citation

LaGrand, James B. and Pettegrew, David, "Harrisburg's historic African American community: An interview with Calobe Jackson Jr." (2020). History Educator Scholarship. 54.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/hist_ed/54