THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN LAKELAND
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| | Back | Dr. John S. Jackson, elected to the City Commission in 1968, was the first African-American to sit on the Commission. He became the city's first African-American Mayor in 1972. In another first, Dr. Jackson became the first African-American surgeon in a city-owned hospital in the state when Lakeland General Hospital (now Lakeland Regional Medical Center) hired him in 1950. He practiced medicine in Lakeland for more than 30 years.
(Photograph from the Northwest Community Collection, RG420)
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