When Jackson left the California Eagle, she earned both her B.A. (1952) and Master’s (1954) in education and became a Los Angeles University School District teacher. She retired after 25 years.[1]
During her teaching career, Jackson continued with freelance photography. Her work has been exhibited at the UCLA Gallery, the Riverside Art Museum, the Black Gallery of Los Angeles, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts,[4] as well as the Los Angeles Country Public Library, the Afro-American Museum of History and Culture in Los Angeles and the Museum of Art in San Francisco.[5]
Exhibitions
Year
Title
Location
Notes
2000
The Great Migration: The Evolution of African American Art, 1790-1945
Sites included the Stephen Schwartzman Gallery, New York Public Library, Akron Art Museum, Santa Barbara Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
First large-scale exhibition featuring women's achievements in photography. Works from 219 women photographers. Vera Jackson’s photograph features a 1948 civil rights protest.[8][9]
1983
The Tradition Continues: California Black Photographers
California African American Museum (as Museum of Afro-American History and Culture), Los Angeles, CA.
Exhibit featured works by Vera Jackson,
Harry Adams, Fred Cooper, Jack Davis, Bill Doggett, Gil Garner, and Howard Lee Morehead. 38-page catalog with text by
Lonnie G. Bunche and
Roland Charles.[6]
Collections
Akron Art Museum[10] A Vera Jackson photograph was also included in an Akron Art Museum exhibit A History of Women Photographers.[11]
Charlotta Bass & California Eagle Photograph Collection, 1870-1960, USC[12]
References
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ab"Vera Jackson, Teacher, California Eagle Photographer, Dies at 88". Los Angeles Sentinel. February 10, 1999.
Bogle, Donald (1998), Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography, New York: Boulevard,
ISBN9781572972926,
OCLC925239361. Includes photographs by and conversations with Vera Jackson, who knew the Dandridge and her family from Wichita, Kansas.
Fuller, Diana Burgess; Salvioni, Daniela (2002), Art, Women, California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections, Berkeley: University of California Press,
ISBN9780520230668,
OCLC46777469.
Harris, Thomas Allen, Through a Lens Darkly : Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. This film has been shown on PBS.[1]
Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (1995), North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, New York: Garland Publishing,
OCLC807112309.[2]
Kreisel, Martha (1999), American Women Photographers: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography, Westport: Greenwood Press,
ISBN9780313304781,
OCLC751244618.[3]
Natanson, Nicholas (1992), The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
OCLC869376123.[4]
Nelson, Stanley (2015), The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords,
OCLC914226393. This film includes interview with Vera Jackson and has been shown on PBS.[5]
Squiers, Carol (1998), "Original, Savvy, Fearless, and Female", American Photo: 57(photo), 63,
ISSN1046-8986.
^Kreisel, Martha (1999). American Women Photographers: a selected and annotated bibliography. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. pp. 138, 311.
ISBN9780313304781.