Name/Title
Women's Political Caucus Conv. - Thelma Jackson, Unknown DateEntry/Object ID
2007-012.U176NDescription
Women's Political Caucus Conv. - Thelma Jackson, unknown date. This black and white film negative strip bearing six images (images 2-7) was created for the Lacey Leader newspaper. These images show a woman (Thelma Jackson) behind a podium giving a speech to approximately ten seated women. Image 2 shows the woman giving the speech at center and the backs of the heads of ten women seated in front of her. Image 3 shows approximately ten audience members as they listen to the speech. The woman nearest the camera is wearing a long, striped shirt and a hat with buttons attached to it. The only pin that is readable reads "E.R.A. Bath Partisan." A woman toward the right of the frame is holding a pen and looking downward. Image 4 shows a very similar scene to that of image 3, but the woman holding the pen is looking up and has her right hand holding her chin. Image 5 shows the woman giving the speech and the backs of the heads of approximately eight audience members. This image was captured from the right of where the photographer was standing in image 2. Image 6 is similar to image 5, but the photographer has moved further to their right, and the backs of only two audience member's heads are visible. Image 7 shows a very similar scene to that of image 6, but the woman giving the speech is looking more in the direction of the camera and she is raising her right hand slightly.
Thelma Jackson was a North Thurston School Board member for twenty years, five of which she served as board president. She also served as Chair of the Washington State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, as Chairperson of the Washington State Legislative Ethics Board, as Chair of the Commission on African American Affairs, and as President of the Board of Trustees of The Evergreen State College, where she later taught as an Adjunct Faculty in Urban Education. Ms. Jackson and her husband, Nathaniel (Nat) Jackson were also active members of the Washington State Republican Party. Ken Balsley believed these images may in fact show a specifically Republican Women's Political Caucus Convention.
Printed at intervals along the top edge of this film negative strip is "KODAK SAFETY FILM 5063."Made/Created
Date made
1967 - 1981Notes
Film Size: 35 mm
Medium: AcetateLexicon
Search Terms
Political Activities, Women's Political Caucus, Women's groupsRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Thelma Jackson
