Charles A. Ingram Collection

Bradley Jackson was born on December 12, 1922 to Bradley Sr. and Sarah J. Jackson in Ashville, North Carolina. Graduating high school early, Bradley attended Tuskegee Institute from 1939-1943. During this time, he was worked on campus to pay for tuition. Through his matriculation he was in the ROTC and eventually became a Senior ROTC Cadet. After his studies, he joined the military and attended officer training where he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry. Participating in the European Theater and the Pacific Theater in World War II, his military career ended in 1946. He returned to military service two years later and served an additional seven-year term.

Bradley moved to Waco where he taught at a vocational school. He married Katherine E. Lewis (? -1991) and they raised a family of four children. Bradley relocated his family to Houston in 1955 where he worked at an auto shop before gaining employment at the post office, where he remained for the next twenty-one years.

Bradley Jackson resided in Acres Homes and was actively involved at the Antioch Baptist Church as a youth Sunday School teacher, trustee and deacon. In 1977 be begin working at National Car Rental, now known as Enterprise, and eventually remarried Willie Jean. Actively involved in the commounity, they created the nonprofit Time Out, Inc.

Taken from collection materials.