The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Alexander Jefferson

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Alexander Jefferson

6/29/2007; 6/11/2010

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.192

Education administrator Alexander Jefferson (1921 - ) trained for World War II at Tuskegee Army Air Field and flew eighteen missions during the war. He was shot down and captured on August 12, 1944 and spent eight months in the POW camp at Stalag Luft III. In 1947 Jefferson returned to civilian life and worked as an education and administrator in the Detroit Public Schools for over thirty years. Jefferson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/29/2007 and 6/11/2010, in Detroit, Michigan. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 11; Total Run Time: 04h 57m 43s

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Jefferson, Alexander, 1921-

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Alexander Jefferson was born on November 15, 1921, in Detroit Michigan, the first child of Alexander Jefferson and Jane White Jefferson. His great-grandfather William Jefferson White was born to a slave woman and a white slave owner in the 1830s. Jefferson's grandfather became a minister, and in 1867, opened an all black school for boys in Augusta, Georgia, which trained its students exclusively for the ministry and pedagogy. Jefferson's grandfather moved the school to Atlanta, Georgia, where th...