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Article: Civil Rights Journal: Affirmative Action Is About Me
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- Oakland Post
- Article date:
- June 21, 1995
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Bernice Powell Jackson
Oakland Post
06-21-1995
Civil Rights Journal: Affirmative Action Is About Me.
From what they tell me, my father was a very special human being. Intelligent, articulate, great sense of humor, committed to his family. For a black man during those days preceding World War II, he had a good job -- working in the post office. Indeed, because of segregation, the best of the black community worked in the post office, often while they were studying law or architecture or medicine.
My father even became one of the first black postal inspectors and during the war he supervised the post office at the now-famous Tuskegee air base, where the black pilots trained. After the war he ...