"The genesis of this exhibition came when the artist's children gifted him the book 'Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle.' As he read through it, Jackson was surprised to see a chapter dedicated to an event that radically shook the place he called home yet one he had never heard of - the 1939 Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri..."
"One of nine siblings, Jackson has a deeply-held passion for his family roots; many of his paintings capture his siblings and extended family at moments that he wouldn't be able to naturally recall, drawing upon treasured black-and-white family photographs and the stories that he and his siblings tell one another as inspirations for his works."
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