Joseph Harrison Jackson
PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record
Longtime pastor of Olivet Baptist Church (1941–1990) who built it into one of the largest Black Baptist congregations in the U.S., with membership exceeding 20,000.
Notes
Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:b-jackson; source research type(s): person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.
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- Encyclopedia of Chicago (encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org) (primary source)
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