Vera Jackson

Vera Jackson (July 21, 1911 – January 25, 1999) was a "pioneer woman photographer in the black press". She photographed African-American social life and celebrity culture in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles. Noted photographic subjects included major league baseball player Jackie Robinson, educator Mary McLeod Bethune, and actresses Dorothy Dandridge, Hattie McDaniel and Lena Horne.

Jackson was a freelance photographer with the California Eagle. Editor Charlotta Bass later hired her as a staff photographer and often paired her to work with society editor Jessie Mae Brown (later Jessie Brown Beavers) until Brown left for the Los Angeles Sentinel. as well as the Los Angeles Country Public Library, the Afro-American Museum of History and Culture in Los Angeles and the Museum of Art in San Francisco.

Jackson died on January 25, 1999, at the age of 88. Sites included the Stephen Schwartzman Gallery, New York Public Library, Akron Art Museum, Santa Barbara Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC. First large-scale exhibition featuring women's achievements in photography. Works from 219 women photographers. Vera Jackson's photograph features a 1948 civil rights protest. California African American Museum (as Museum of Afro-American History and Culture), Los Angeles, CA. Exhibit featured works by Vera Jackson, Harry Adams, Fred Cooper, Jack Davis, Bill Doggett, Gil Garner, and Howard Lee Morehead. 38-page catalog with text by Lonnie G. Bunche and Roland Charles.

Collections Akron Art Museum A Vera Jackson photograph was also included in an Akron Art Museum exhibit A History of Women Photographers. Charlotta Bass & California Eagle Photograph Collection, 1870–1960, USC Vera Jackson Archive,