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Roberta Jackson became the first Black tenure-track faculty member in UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Education in 1970, taught education, and later became the first tenured Black woman in the university's Division of Academic Affairs. The university's admissions building was named for her and her husband, Blyden Jackson, in honor of their service to Carolina.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: 225 years of Tar Heels: Blyden and Roberta Jackson
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The order of service for the funeral mass of Roberta Bowles Hodges Jackson, born 23 February 1920 and died 11 July 1999, celebrated at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, which also printed it. The title gives her doctorate.
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