Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2020
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
LaGrand, James and Pettegrew, David, "Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Calobe Jackson Jr." (2020). Pennsylvania History Articles. 11.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/pahistory/11
Included in
African American Studies Commons, United States History Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons
Comments
This edited collection was developed and published in tandem with the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project (2018-2020), with support and funding from Messiah University's Center for Public Humanities and the Council of Independent College's Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant Program.
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.
“Used with permission from Penn State University Press.”