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Interview with Alfred Jackson

dc.contributor.authorScott, Thomas Allan (1943- )
dc.contributor.authorCawley, Mary B.
dc.contributor.otherJackson, Alfred
dc.coverage.spatialCobb County (Ga.) (Ga.)
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-23T15:44:24Z
dc.date.created8/11/1987
dc.date.issued2021-09-23T15:44:24Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-23T15:44:24Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-23T15:44:24Z
dc.identifier.citationInterview with Alfred Jackson, 1987-08-11, Cobb County oral history series, Kennesaw State University Oral History Project, 1973- , KSU/45/05/001, Kennesaw State University Archives.
dc.identifier.urihttps://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/6138
dc.descriptionAlfred Jackson was born on February 17, 1926 in Jasper County, Georgia. Alfred's family worked as tenant farmers up into the 1950's and mainly farmed cotton. He attended the Noonday School, Mount Zion, and Lemon Street High School (Perkinson High). During WW II he served on the navy ship USS Portland. He received a set of photographs of the Japanese generals surrendering on the Portland on 2 September 1945. These photographs were destroyed but all are available on the Naval Historical Center of the U.S. Navy website. After serving in the Navy, Alfred worked at the Dobbins Air Force Base for about 14 years. This oral history interview covers a variety of topics, including education during the early twentieth century, agriculture, cemeteries in Cobb County, Navy service, and work at the Dobbins Air Force Base.
dc.description.abstractOral history with Alfred Jackson. Oral history covers a variety of topics, including education during the early twentieth century, agriculture, cemeteries in Cobb County, Naval service, and work at the Dobbins Air Force Base.
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.ispartofhttp://archivesspace.kennesaw.edu/repositories/4/resources/195
dc.rightsThe digital reproductions on this site are provided for research consultation and scholarly purposes only. To request permission to publish, reproduce, publicly display, broadcast, or distribute this material in any format outside of fair use please contact the Kennesaw State University Archives.
dc.subjectCobb County (Ga.) -- History.
dc.subjectOral histories.
dc.subjectTenant farming.
dc.subjectTranscripts.
dc.subjectAfrican Americans--History.
dc.subjectJackson, Alfred
dc.titleInterview with Alfred Jackson
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  • Cobb County Oral History Series
    The Cobb County Oral History Series was conducted by Thomas Scott, Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, and others, of prominent citizens of Cobb County, Georgia. The series was started in 1978 and interviews are still being conducted. The interviewees were people of various backgrounds from Cobb, Cherokee, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, and Fulton counties.
  • North and Northwest Georgia Regional History
    Oral histories pertaining to history of North and Northwest Georgia.

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