Eunice Cloman Jackson; undated
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content: Turner, Reginald
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content: Guide to 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Oral History Collection
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.A2014.240, Series 6
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content: Eunice Cloman Jackson was born August 17, 1903 in Lake Village, Arkansas. Jackson and her family moved to the Greenwood District of Tulsa in 1917. During the massacre, they were captured by the police and detained in the Convention Center. They were not released until Jackson's mother's white employer "claimed" the family. Jackson's stepfather was part of a crew of gravediggers that buried bodies in Oaklawn cemetery. They returned to discover their home was not destroyed, as they lived on a street with mostly white neighbors. Eunice married Samuel M. Jackson in 1923 and they became active members rebuilding the Greenwood District. Although they separated, they remained business partners co-owning Jackson Funeral Home later Jack's Memory Chapel. The business is still open today. Eunice Jackson served as a plaintiff in the court caseAlexander, et al., v. Oklahoma, et al. in 2003. Jackson died June 15, 2003 in Tulsa.