A Women's History Month Special to the Post; Ida Jackson: A Most Memorable Lady From: Oakland Post | Date: April 5, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Corten, Dick
Oakland Post
04-05-2005
Eighty-four years ago, a precocious teenage girl from Vicksburg,
Mississippi, enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, planning
to become a teacher. She was one of only 17 African-American students on
campus -- eight women and nine men. As a student, she often felt invisible,
unspoken to by classmates and uncalled upon by professors. But the Biggest
Man on Campus, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, stopped and chatted with her
one day, and that raised her spirits, as did a friendship she made with the
dean of women, Lucy Ward Stebbins.

The student was Ida ...

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