Talk:May Howard Jackson

Image of an additional work
I think this image is copyright expired as it was published in 1916, but as I am unclear about the position with works of art, I haven't uploaded it. There is information about the work on page 278, and a photograph of it on page 279: I've added it to the selected works: https://books.google.com/books?id=fVoEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Hildabast (talk) 23:02, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

May 4, 2017 edit
On May 4, 2017, users Haileybug1124 and WarthSa edited this page for the course "Women in Art" at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, under the direction of user Sbeetham. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haileybug1124 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

January 2022 updates
Work done: refined the citations, added images of Jackson's work which are now available under expired copyright protections, and linked many of the prominent African Americans of the period to whom Jackson was connected. Still some work to be done. Jackson's 1931 death means that her work is currently not subject to copyright in the United States, although individual images may be subject to the photographer's ownership. Or such is my understanding.

Sicklemoon (talk) 19:08, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

There has been a flag regarding my use of the Dunbar School History in the Washington section (Morris III, D.P.A, Archie (2019-03-21). Up from Slavery; an Unfinished Journey: The Legacy of Dunbar High School. Author House. ISBN 978-1-7283-0421-2.). This work seems adequately referenced and the part that is cited here simply references Cooper's invitation to Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois's lecture in the winter of 1903 and gives the dates of William Jackson's tenure as school principal. The information is a lot more detailed, and rational, than other accounts of William Jackson's tenure at Dunbar, which inadequately sequence the variety of positions he filled, confirming that he was, in fact, Principal at M Street High School for three years, but that the majority of his time there was spent in other roles.

Sicklemoon (talk) 02:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Here's my note as of January 17th, "/* Washington */ Citation material stripped from page (dates for Jackson's husband's teaching years) as possible violation for self-promotion or profit. Ludicrous. Put in alternative source--similar material, author gives same primary source citations at the source deleted by the algorithm, but is not interested in the actual subject matter of William Sherman at Dunbar but rather just in Dunbar (M Street) itself. An inferior citation, in my opinion." I can accept that there's some beef against "Author House" for reasons unknown to me, but clearly this book on Dunbar School is a legitimate piece of research and, luckily for the field, actually focusses for a section on William Sherman Jackson, May Jackson's husband. I'll do a work around, but this is counter-productive and a waste of time. Sicklemoon (talk) 16:27, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

whitewash
Looking at this and marveling at the improvements (thanx:Sicklrmoon) but wondering if the motivations of some editors are other than encyclopedic, for example, where an editor removed a piece for no attribution.

"She was so well known by the 1920s that a Harlem Renaissance poet, Georgia Douglas Johnson, wrote a poem about her. The poem was rather contrary and spoke about her professional difficulties and how they could have resulted from her grim outlook on life; but also suggests that she deserved more praise and attention than she was getting. The poem, "To May Howard Jackson, Sculptor," is as follows, (Kirschke),
 * You saw the vision in the face of clay


 * And fixed it through the magic of a hand


 * Obedient unto the will's command


 * In forms impervious to Time's decay:


 * Historian of bloods that interplay


 * Confusedly within a cryptic land


 * You've Chiseled, and your work of art shall stand


 * To gem the archives of a better day
 * Alone, far from the touch of kindred mind


 * You've mounted with a grim, determined zeal,


 * Despite environment austere, unkind,


 * Or frozen fingers clenched to your appeal


 * You've held the ardor of your first ideal


 * Robed in queenly majesty, resaned".   CaptJayRuffins (talk) 11:35, 20 October 2023 (UTC)