24 Facts About Harold Jackman

Harold Jackman was a British-born teacher, model, and patron of the arts with emphasis on African American art and literature.

Harold Jackman founded the Countee Cullen Memorial Collection at Atlanta University and contributed to the James Weldon Johnson Collection of Yale University, the Literary Collection of Fisk University, and to the Schomburg Collection at the Harlem branch of the New York Public Library.

Harold Jackman attended the all-boys DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he met Countee Cullen, who became his lifelong friend.

Harold Jackman earned his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1923 and his master's degree from Columbia University in 1927.

Harold Jackman went on to teach social studies for thirty years in the New York Public School System.

Harold Jackman was a supporter and promoter of African American theater.

Harold Jackman was a founding member for the Krigwa Players Little Negro Theater in 1926.

Harold Jackman directed Georgia Douglas Johnson's Plumes for the company in 1929.

Harold Jackman helped establish the Harlem Experimental Theater in 1929, and was a member of the American Theater Wing Stage Door Canteen in the 1940s.

For over three decades Harold Jackman worked as a model, most notably for Ophelia DeVore's The Grace Del Marco Agency.

Harold Jackman was featured in Winold Reiss' drawing A College Lad.

Harold Jackman appeared as a character in Wallace Thurman's novel Infants of Spring.

Harold Jackman was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the Urban League, and the Negro Actors Guild on which he served as the executive board.

Harold Jackman was an associate editor of New Challenge magazine from 1935 to 1937.

Harold Jackman was a contributing editor to Phylon from 1944 to 1956 and an advisory editor from 1957 to 1961.

Harold Jackman was a collector of African American memorabilia and black cultural artifacts.

Harold Jackman's collections are held in depositories across the country, including the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans and Atlanta University in Georgia.

Harold Jackman was a part of Harlem's gay community and frequented the Hamilton Lodge Ball, an annual masquerade which attracted thousands of costumed men and women dressed in drag.

Harold Jackman frequently escorted single women and was usually king of the Urban League's Beaux Arts Ball.

Harold Jackman spent periods in Europe, particularly in Paris where he met expatriate writer Edouard Roditi.

Harold Jackman was known for being social and mingled with various prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vetchen, Wallace Thurman, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen.

Harold Jackman was best known for his friendship with poet Countee Cullen who he met in high school.

Harold Jackman was survived by a brother, Bertram Jackman, and sister, Ivie Jackman.

Harold Jackman's estate was estimated at $40,000 at the time of his death.