Jane D. Shackelford

Jane Dabney Shackelford was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1895. She graduated from a high school in Logansport, Indiana and then entered Indiana State Normal School where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1919.
Shackelford taught in the Terre Haute public school system for more than 40 years. She wrote her first book, The Child's Story of the Negro, and published in 1938. The revised edition of the book was published in 1956.





Shackelford pictured with her class at Booker T. Washington School during National Negro History Week, February 1969. Photograph by Martin's Studio. Image from Indiana Odyssey: Celebrating our African American Authors website.