Alphonse J. Jackson

Who is Alphonse J. Jackson?

Alphonse Jackson, Jr. is a retired educator and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he represented District 2 in Caddo Parish. He was a charter member of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, founded in 1977.

Prior to and during his legislative service Jackson was active in the civil rights movement, working in consort with black dentist Louis Pendleton and white school board leader Don W. Williamson in Shreveport and surrounding Caddo and Bossier parishes.

As a legislator, the Democrat Jackson opposed the Balanced Treatment Act regarding the teaching of creation science and evolution in Louisiana public schools. The law was written by a Shreveport colleague, State Senator Bill P. Keith, also a Democrat. It was struck down in 1987 by the United States Supreme Court in the decision Edwards v. Aguillard.

Alphonse and his wife, the former Glenda Hurst, live in Baton Rouge. He has two daughters, Angela Eileen Jackson and Lydia Patrice Jackson and one stepdaughter, Andrea Archie.