Charles J. Jackson
Ocean City property owner · active 1944-1945
An Ocean City property owner who appears three times in the 1944-45 minutes. On 24 October 1944 he was among the boardwalk owners invited to advise the council how to rebuild after the hurricane. On 14 November 1944 he applied to remodel the Nancy Truitt property as a Colored rooming house; letters from Esposito and from Ocean City Business men were read against it and the council asked him to withdraw the application and refile it for white only. He telephoned on 21 November to say he would attend the next meeting, and the minute book never returns to it. On 5 June 1945 an A. W. Jackson, Chas. J. Jackson and Lee Jackson objected together to the ordinance closing dancing at 12:30 on Saturday nights.
In the record (2)
1944 · 1944-11-14
Ocean City's businessmen wrote against a Colored rooming house on the Nancy Truitt property, and the council asked the applicant to withdraw it and apply for white only.
Chas. J. Jackson came before the council, with Mrs. Carey and daughter also present. Letters from Esposito and from Ocean City Business men were read requesting that no permit be granted to Jackson for remodeling the Nancy Truitt property for a Colored rooming house. The letters were read aloud to the council and to Mr. Jackson, and the council asked Mr. Jackson to withdraw his application for a Colored rooming house and make it for white only, leaving any further action until the next meeting. On 21 November Jackson telephoned about his permit and said he would be present at the next meeting; the 1944 minute book records nothing further. It is the same evening the council ordered a zoning ordinance drafted.
Source · checked 2026-08-12
1945 · 1945-06-05
Three Jacksons asked Ocean City for fifteen more minutes of Saturday-night dancing and got five: music off at 12:40, everyone out by one.
A. W. Jackson, Chas. J. Jackson and Lee Jackson came before the council objecting to the ordinance closing dancing at 12:30 on Saturday nights and asked for 12:45. The council was very definite that it wanted the dance hall cleared, people out and lights out by one o'clock, and said that if they could clear the place by stopping music at 12:40 and being out by one, it would consent to that. They also wanted dancing until one o'clock for three days in the season - Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day - and a clause here is struck through in the original; but Jackson could keep his lunch room open after the dance was closed. On 31 July the council considered the closing hour of night clubs generally and it was unanimous that they close at 12:40 with lights out by one o'clock on Saturday evenings. The compromise the Jacksons proposed in June became the rule for the whole town in July.
Source · checked 2026-08-12