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Graham Jackson Sr. began his musical career with the jazz group the Seminole Syncopaters in Atlanta. He performed for Franklin D. Roosevelt over twenty-four times during his career, and at the president's funeral in 1945.

Courtesy of Auburn Avenue Research Library, Graham Washington Jackson, Sr. papers.

Signed portrait of Graham Jackson Sr.

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