Jesse C. Jackson
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Jesse Jackson, was an African-American novel
ist, born in Columbus, Ohio
in 1908.
Jackson was one of the first young adult novelists whose works focused on contemporary experiences of African-American children, often those experiencing life as a minority in a white community. Call Me Charley, published in 1945, dealt with an African-American teenager struggling for acceptance in an all-white school in the suburbs. Tessie, published in 1968, deals with a black "scholarship girl" at an exclusive private school in New York
. Jesse Jackson died in North Carolina
in 1983.
In Honey for a Child's Heart, a book on the role of literature in a family's life, Gladys M. Hunt writes,
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist, born in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
in 1908.
Jackson was one of the first young adult novelists whose works focused on contemporary experiences of African-American children, often those experiencing life as a minority in a white community. Call Me Charley, published in 1945, dealt with an African-American teenager struggling for acceptance in an all-white school in the suburbs. Tessie, published in 1968, deals with a black "scholarship girl" at an exclusive private school in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. Jesse Jackson died in North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
in 1983.
In Honey for a Child's Heart, a book on the role of literature in a family's life, Gladys M. Hunt writes,
“No one has yet sat down and devised a set of rules that magically produces a great story. The quality that we have talked about has to come from the quality inside the person writing the story. In 1945 Jesse Jackson wrote Call Me Charley, the story of the only black boy in a white school. Mr. Jackson did not write primarily to deliver a message on race relations. He simply wrote a book out of his own experience. It had the ring of reality, and twenty years later the book’s editor would hear a woman tell how she had read a book in the fifth grade that changed her life, her whole attitude about people. The book was Call Me Charley."