![]() ![]() Jackson’s rooming house was used during the Jim Crow era and Civil Rights movement as a hotel housing African Americans who could not find segregated facilities to rent when they were traveling. In the early years of 1920s and 1940s, the property was used for Emancipation Day celebrations, community meetings and political debates. The building had several entrances to the main living quarters and to the bakery: the Pendleton Street side served as a private residence and later as a beauty salon business, and the 521 North Henry Street side served as a bakery/hotel and later as a rooming house. ![]() This property throughout the years has been used for important events in Alexandria’s African American history. Jackson purchased the building, he obtained a license to use the property as a rooming house and a bakery. This building was a multi-purpose building serving the Jackson family as a home and as a business. Over 100 years ago in 1917, 39-year-old John Wesley Jackson purchased a building at 1022 Pendleton Street at the corner of Henry Street. ![]()
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