A Photographic Retrospective of San Francisco's African-American Community.
This presentation features selected works, many never before published, of local photographer, Steve Jackson, Jr., who was resident photographer at Jimbo's Bop City (1951-1965). A portion of Jackson's collection is currently on exhibit at the Smithsonian's African-American Museum of History & Culture in Washington, DC. Join us and experience the City and San Francisco's African-American community through images and anecdotes shared by his daughter, Linda.
Linda A. Jackson, a native San Franciscan, is a writer, historian, photographer and food artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Mount St. Mary's University and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, and has recently completed a collection of short stories entitled, The Religion of Slaves. She is now working on her memoir.
Linda Jackson
Reservations required: https://bit.ly/LindaJacksonSF8-2-20
This event will simultaneously be broadcast on the SF Public Library YouTube.
For accommodations, call 415-557-4557 or contact [email protected]. Requesting 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability.
This event will be recorded, if you are not comfortable being recorded, please place your display camera to OFF.
PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
This Program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link, you will leave SFPL's website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, & password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party website or service that you visit or use, including those third parties with whom you interact with through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links, please see the section of SFPL's Privacy Policy describing "Links to Other Sites" at https://sfpl.org/about-us/privacy-policy.
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This presentation features selected works, many never before published, of local photographer, Steve Jackson, Jr., who was resident photographer at Jimbo's Bop City (1951-1965). A portion of Jackson's collection is currently on exhibit at the Smithsonian's African-American Museum of History & Culture in Washington, DC. Join us and experience the City and San Francisco's African-American community through images and anecdotes shared by his daughter, Linda.
Linda A. Jackson, a native San Franciscan, is a writer, historian, photographer and food artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Mount St. Mary's University and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, and has recently completed a collection of short stories entitled, The Religion of Slaves. She is now working on her memoir.
Linda Jackson
Reservations required: https://bit.ly/LindaJacksonSF8-2-20
This event will simultaneously be broadcast on the SF Public Library YouTube.
For accommodations, call 415-557-4557 or contact [email protected]. Requesting 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability.
This event will be recorded, if you are not comfortable being recorded, please place your display camera to OFF.
PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
This Program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link, you will leave SFPL's website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, & password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party website or service that you visit or use, including those third parties with whom you interact with through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links, please see the section of SFPL's Privacy Policy describing "Links to Other Sites" at https://sfpl.org/about-us/privacy-policy.
A Photographic Retrospective of San Francisco's African-American Community.
This presentation features selected works, many never before published, of local photographer, Steve Jackson, Jr., who was resident photographer at Jimbo's Bop City (1951-1965). A portion of Jackson's collection is currently on exhibit at the Smithsonian's African-American Museum of History & Culture in Washington, DC. Join us and experience the City and San Francisco's African-American community through images and anecdotes shared by his daughter, Linda.
Linda A. Jackson, a native San Franciscan, is a writer, historian, photographer and food artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Mount St. Mary's University and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, and has recently completed a collection of short stories entitled, The Religion of Slaves. She is now working on her memoir.
Linda Jackson
Reservations required: https://bit.ly/LindaJacksonSF8-2-20
This event will simultaneously be broadcast on the SF Public Library YouTube.
For accommodations, call 415-557-4557 or contact [email protected]. Requesting 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability.
This event will be recorded, if you are not comfortable being recorded, please place your display camera to OFF.
PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
This Program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link, you will leave SFPL's website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, & password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party website or service that you visit or use, including those third parties with whom you interact with through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links, please see the section of SFPL's Privacy Policy describing "Links to Other Sites" at https://sfpl.org/about-us/privacy-policy.
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This presentation features selected works, many never before published, of local photographer, Steve Jackson, Jr., who was resident photographer at Jimbo's Bop City (1951-1965). A portion of Jackson's collection is currently on exhibit at the Smithsonian's African-American Museum of History & Culture in Washington, DC. Join us and experience the City and San Francisco's African-American community through images and anecdotes shared by his daughter, Linda.
Linda A. Jackson, a native San Franciscan, is a writer, historian, photographer and food artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Mount St. Mary's University and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, and has recently completed a collection of short stories entitled, The Religion of Slaves. She is now working on her memoir.
Linda Jackson
Reservations required: https://bit.ly/LindaJacksonSF8-2-20
This event will simultaneously be broadcast on the SF Public Library YouTube.
For accommodations, call 415-557-4557 or contact [email protected]. Requesting 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability.
This event will be recorded, if you are not comfortable being recorded, please place your display camera to OFF.
PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
This Program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link, you will leave SFPL's website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, & password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party website or service that you visit or use, including those third parties with whom you interact with through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links, please see the section of SFPL's Privacy Policy describing "Links to Other Sites" at https://sfpl.org/about-us/privacy-policy.
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