Ida Jackson
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1902, Ida Jackson was
the first certified African-American high school teacher
in California. She completed her master's degree at the
University of California, Berkeley, a rarity for an African-American
woman in the 1920s, and coursework toward her Ph.D. at Berkeley
and Columbia University. She later became dean of women
at Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama and national president
of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, which she mobilized to
create the Mississippi Health Project, the first mobile
health clinic system in the United States. The project's
volunteer doctors served more than four thousand people
in the rural South.
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