A photograph of a house on E. Hamilton St. in the Farish Street Historic District. Notation on the photograph indicates the architecture is Queen Anne Style.
A.N. Jackson moved to Jackson, MS in the 1920s as a teenager. He discusses his grandparents and their lives as slaves; his grandfather fought for the Union Army in the Civil War. He also talks about his teaching career which encompassed the Jackson schools Lanier High School and Smith Robertson School, where he became principal in 1950.
Ada L. Wilson moved to the Farish Street District in 1945 after graduating college and went on to work as a teacher in Jackson Public Schools and Jackson State. She discusses Wilson's Grocery Store, her family’s business in the district. She also talks about her efforts to stop the city from demolishing Smith Robertson School after its closing.