Jackson's Drug Store

Jacksons’ Drug Store was listed in the Green Book as “Jackson’s So. James St.” under “Drug Stores” in Goldsboro from 1954-1955.¹

Jackson’s Drug Store was owned by pharmacist Osceola Jackson. Jackson first registered as a pharmacist in Tennessee. He registered as a pharmacist in North Carolina in 1930. His drug store, established in the early 1930s, offered prescriptions, drugs, sundries, cosmetics, and fountain service.²

Osceola Jackson was born in 1900 in New Bern, North Carolina. Jackson graduated from the National Training School (now North Carolina Central University) in 1922. He and his wife, Minnie, lived at 407 South George Street. Minnie was a teacher at Dillard High School. Osceola was committed to serving his profession; he was elected as treasurer of the Eastern Carolina Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Society in 1939.³

Osceola Jackson operated the drug store at least through the early 1960s. He passed away in 1978.⁴

Essay by Brandie K. Ragghianti, 2022

Notes

1. Victor Green, 1954 Green Book, 53; Green, 1955 Green Book, 53. 
2. Hill’s 1934 Goldsboro City Directory, 132 (alphabetical listing);  North Carolina Board of Pharmacy, Eighty-Eighth Annual Report, 1968-1969, 28; “Jackson Drug Co.” (ad), The Carolinian, June 19, 1948, 7, accessed from http://newspapers.digitalnc.org.
3. Osceola Jackson, September 26, 1900, Goldsboro, Wayne  County, North Carolina, US World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, accessed from www.ancestry.com; “Rev. S.V. V. Holmes Delivers Powerful Address to Students Of Training School Thursday,” Durham Morning Herald (Durham, NC), May 26, 1922, 11, accessed from http://newspapers.digitalnc.org; Hill’s 1934 Goldsboro City Directory, 132 (alphabetical listing); 1940 United States Federal Census, Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, digital image s.v. “O. Jackson,” accessed from www.ancestry.com; “Dunn Negro Doctor Will Head Society” The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), April 20, 1939, 5, accessed from www.newspapers.com.
4. Hill’s 1963 Goldsboro City Directory, 124 (alphabetical listing); Oceola Jackson, August 24, 1977, Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, US Death Indexes, 1908-2004, accessed from www.ancestry.com.