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It’s hard to hear the story of Graham Jackson without feeling some sort of emotion. That’s part of the reason scholar David Cason spent five years researching Jackson’s life.
As one of the first Black musicians to play on national radio, Jackson is best known for the April 13, 1945, photograph of him mourning the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But that image was only part of Jackson’s story. Through his research, Cason was able to document the ugly racial realities that Jackson and other Black Americans faced throughout the 20th century.
Though his specialty is teaching civil rights and social justice, Cason is unsure if he can tell Jackson’s complete story under a proposed law in North Dakota, where he is an assistant professor, that would make it illegal to teach anything that might make students feel guilt, anger or shame.
As Cason details here, the story of Jackson “involves all of these things.”
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Howard Manly
Race + Equity Editor
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Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson mourns the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 13, 1945.
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