Older people

Content Description This collection documents the career of administrator and advocate for the elderly Hobart C. Jackson Sr. Jackson was the administrator for the Stephen Smith Home for the Aged in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and chairman of the National Caucus on the Black Aged. He was also a participant in the 1971 White House Conference on Aging. Prior to his administration at the Stephen Smith Home, Jackson was a business manager at Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, When Mercy-Douglas Hospital was...

Content Description The Lurline Jefferson papers include correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, minutes, invitations, programs, press releases, announcements, certificates, licenses, and collected items. The items relate to activities of Jefferson during the period she lived  in New Orleans and for her New York period. Most of the items relate to her involvement in the senior citizen and other community groups. there are a few items about her husband, Leonard. Names among the correspondents included are...