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| John Wesley Jackson |
This entrepreneur was one of the first black hotel owners in Alexandria and owner of Hotel Jackson (located on King and Peyton Streets). Jackson also owned a grocery store at 200 North Payne Street and founded Mount Jezreel Baptist Church in 1890. Jackson was a private financial lender, a member of the NAACP, and a member of the National Building Association of Baltimore City. In 1917, he purchased a house at 521 North Henry Street. It functioned as a rooming house and a bakery. Over the years, it was the only place chauffeurs and other service workers could stay, due to segregated hotels.
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