ISLANDS WITH RAINBOWS, PALM TREES, AND THE SUN | A Busboys and Poets Presentation
Date and Time
Jul 19, 2023 6:00 pm
Location
Hyattsville
5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20781
Jul 19, 2023 6:00 pm
Hyattsville
Islands With Rainbows, Palm Trees and the Sun: Hawai’i’s Experience with Blacks by Miles M. Jackson, Ph.D., tells of the presence of Blacks in Hawai’i and provides insight on the significant and lasting contributions that have been made by Blacks to the local life and culture. For years Blacks have practiced medicine, practiced law, pastored churches, were educators, engineers, advised royalty and owned land. Today, there is a viable community, although small, they have formed social and cultural organizations that allow them to come together. Reading the book you will surely be enlightened.
Dr. Miles M. Jackson is joining us on the Busboys stage to share the significant and lasting contributions have made in Hawi’i. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and the author will be signing following the program.
This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of ISLANDS WITH RAINBOWS, PALM TREES AND THE SUN will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and will NOT be livestreamed.
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Miles M. Jackson, Jr. received his B.A. degree in English in 1955 from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. He then earned his M.S. degree in 1956 from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later enrolled at Indiana University and completed his postgraduate coursework from 1961 to 1964. Jackson received his Ph.D. degree in communications in 1974, graduating from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications, in Syracuse, New York.
He joined the University of Hawai’i at MÄnoa in 1975 as a professor and was named Dean of the Graduate School of Library Science in 1983. He later retired as professor and Dean Emeritus from the School of Library and Information Sciences in 1995.
Miles has traveled widely in the South Pacific and Asia and was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Tehran, in Iran from 1968 to 1969. He was the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship award for study in East and West Africa in 1969. He served as an Asia Foundation consultant to the Ministry of Education in Papua New Guinea in 1981 and was a U.S. State Department Specialist in Pakistan and India from 1981 to 1983.
He has served as executive producer of Holding Fast the Dream, a one-hour documentary film on African Americans in Hawaii. The film premiered at the 2010 Hawaii International Film Festival and was selected for the San Diego Black Film Festival in 2011.
Jackson has also been a contributor to the Honolulu Advertiser and Mahogany Magazine. Throughout his career he has been honored for his contributions. In 2010 he received the NAACP 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award and was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who in 2019. He has also been featured in numerous publications as well, including History Makers, multiple editions of Who’s Who in American Education and Who’s Who in the West.
He married Bernice Olivia Roane and together they raised four children Miles Merrill III, Marsha, Muriel and Melia and has six grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Included in his published works are books:
And They Came: A Brief History of Blacks in Hawaii, Four G Press, 2001,
They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2005 and most recently:
Islands With Rainbows, Palm Trees and the Sun: Hawai’i’s Experience With Blacks, Grant House Publishers, 2023.
