Jackson Street Community Council
The Jackson Street Community Council serves as an early model of interethnic community activism. Formed in 1946, it worked to support neighborhood businesses and community organizations along Jackson Street, which spanned the Chinatown-International District and Central District. Its headquarters was located at 826 South Jackson Street, near where the I-5 freeway is now. Wing Luke Museum Collection, 2001.053.025
What issues do you think might have been important to the Council when it started in 1946?
If the Jackson Street Community Council was still here, what issues would it organize around today?
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