For many years B. J. Jackson operated this produce stand in the City Market located in the Municipal Building. Jacksons wife Lula Rachel Jackson and all of their ten children helped in the business. Thomas Wolfe described Jacksons produce stand in Look Homeward Angel, p156: The self-respecting negro, J. H. Jackson, stood in his square vegetable stall, attended by his two grave-faced sons, and his spectacled businesslike daughter. He was surrounded by wide slanting shelves of fruit and vegetables, smelling of the earth and morning great crinkled lettuces, fat radishes still clotted damply with black loam, quill-stemmed young onions newly wrenched from gardens, late celery, spring potatoes, and the thin rinded citrous fruits of Florida.
NC Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, MS147, Ruth Jackson Cannon and Shirley Cannon Singleton Collection
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