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Apr 8, 2020 · The most prominent Tulsan killed in the massacre was Dr. A.C. Jackson, a 40-year-old surgeon living at 523 N. Detroit Ave.
- Nia Clark
A.C. Jackson was an African American surgeon who was murdered during the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 and is known as the most prominent victim of the massacre. Jackson was a leading member of the Oklahoma medical community and the African-American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma until his death.
Jun 10, 2021 · Recently, National Library of Medicine (NLM) archivist John Rees fielded a reference email from Jon Adams seeking historical materials about his relative Dr. Andrew C. Jackson, a prominent Black physician working and living in the Greenwood section of Tulsa that was the epicenter of the event.
- ‘The Most Able Negro Surgeon in America’
- Moton Memorial Hospital
- Top-Notch Black Doctors, Inferior Equipment
- Different Generation, Same Challenges
- Long Way to Go
- Changes Are Slowly Coming
- Staying Home in North Tulsa
Though Greenwood traces its origins to 1905, the community lacked a hospital for more than a decade after its founding. Blacks were excluded from white hospitals because of the new state’s segregation laws, instead undergoing serious and sometimes fatal operations within their own homes. In 1917, the Booker T. Washington Hospital opened on Archer S...
Working in conjunction with the Red Cross, Greenwood leaders opened a new nine-room hospital less than a year after their neighborhood was burned to the ground. The new facility was named after Maurice Willows, the Red Cross director in Tulsa and who spearheaded relief efforts. Willows had been one of the only white allies to Black Tulsans as city ...
Still, Greenwood’s doctors did the best they could. Dr. Charles Bate, a longtime North Tulsa physician and surgeon, who began practicing when he arrived in 1940 from the famed historically Black Meharry Medical College in Nashville, recalled the many challenges of serving the neighborhood in his 1986 memoir, “It’s Been a Long Time. And We’ve Come a...
When Dr. Runako Whittaker came to Tulsa, her residency was at Morton Health Services Center, the medical facility that replaced Moton Hospital in the late 1960s. Unlike a traditional hospital, Morton lacks an emergency room and urgent-care center. Despite practicing medicine decades after Dr. Bate, she would find herself facing some of the same cha...
The city of Tulsa has a long way to go to achieve equitable health outcomes for North Tulsa residents. There is a life expectancy gap of more than 10 years between some ZIP codes north of Greenwood Avenue and the more prosperous ZIP codes of South Tulsa. And according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, the infant mortality rate for Blac...
There are other new, positive signs for the community. The recent opening of the Oasis Grocery Store on North Peoria Avenue has made it easier for Dr. Whittaker’s patients to access nutritious foods. “Now I can tell them exactly where to go and they don’t have to travel far,” she says. There’s also a greater effort among doctors to collaborate in e...
The group will also work to reach out to Black medical school students and residents in Oklahoma so that they can receive the same mentorship and guidance earlier generations did when they arrived here in Tulsa. “The last year or so has shown us that we need each other,” Dr. Washington says. “When we have Black students in those schools, we need to...
- Victor Luckerson
Apr 15, 2020 · Every Tulsa historian would agree that among the most tragic of the deaths which occurred during the Race Massacre of 1921 was that of Dr. A.C. Jackson. The esteemed physician and surgeon was well-respected not only in Greenwood but across medical circles throughout the country.
Feb 19, 2020 · Dr. Jackson practiced in Tulsa and Claremore and then trained as a surgeon in Memphis. In 1919, he returned to Tulsa as a specialist in chronic diseases and surgery for women.
Dr. Andrew Cheesten Jackson, a name that once reverberated within the halls of medical institutions and among communities of Tulsa, Oklahoma, represents both the immense potential and tragic loss of Black achievement in early 20th-century America.
