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1941

Born March 19, 1941 in Farmville, Virginia

1958

Graduated from Robert Russa Moton High School- Farmville, VA (Prince Edward County, a Brown v. Board of Education County in 1954)

1962

Graduated from Hampton Institute
B.S. in Biology and Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude). 2nd ranking student in graduating class. Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society. Awarded special distinction for dissertation "An Ethnohistorical Study of Akamba Oral Traditions"

1962-63

Attended University of California, Los Angeles Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Introductory Studies in African History

1963-64

Attended University of Ghana, Legon on a John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship

1964-65

Attended King’s College, University of Cambridge

1966-68

Attended University of California, Los Angeles (Return to Ph. D program in History)

1967-69

Research in Kenya for 18 months on a Ford Foundation Foreign Areas Training Fellowship. Focus: Oral History of the Akamba, a decentralized society in southwest highlands of Kenya.

1969

Acting assistant professor, Stanford University

1970

Received Ph. D, University of California, Los Angeles

1970

Assistant professor, Stanford University

1972

Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for outstanding service to undergraduate education at Stanford.

1973

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant, Research in Kenya

1977

Promoted to Associate Professor, Stanford University

1980-89

Director, The Undergraduate Program in African and Afro-Americans

1980-2005

Resident Fellow, Branner Hall, Stanford University

1985

Designed and established the Undergraduate Scholars Program, which provided one-on-one mentoring and research guidance for minority and other students from faculty members, long before the idea of mentoring minority students for possible positions in the professoriate became popular.

1985-86

University Fellow, Stanford University

1986

Created Undergraduate Scholars Program, Stanford University

1986

Published "Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Exchange," Harry Elam and Kennell Jackson (editors)

1990

Cox Medal for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate research at Stanford.

1996

Published "America is Me: The Most Asked and Least Understood Questions About Black American History"

2001

Published “What is Really Happening Here?: Black Hair among African Americans and in American Culture” in periodical "Hair in African Art and Culture"

2005

Promoted to Full professor, Stanford University

2005

Passed away on November 21, 2005 at the age of 64.

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Memorial Candles

	Sarah Thompson lit a candle on 10/25/2009: "When "Good Hair" came out this past weekend, I couldn't help but think of you and your pioneering work. Still miss you!"

	Imad Kharbush lit a candle on 10/01/2009: "Thinking of you."

	FREDRICK MUTOONI lit a candle on 06/20/2009: "I bought a book with his signature and im proud of Kennel Jackson"

	Dorothy Mills lit a candle on 03/14/2009: "Fond memories of Mau-Mau seminars and listening to Stevie Wonder. My son just wrote about Kenya. Your work continues."

	Marva Jones Brooks lit a candle on 04/19/2008: "For me, my brother Duane L. Jones, and Kathy Barnes, we mourn our beloved Kennell. They've joyfully reuinted in Glory."

	Otis Jackson lit a candle on 11/21/2007: "Two years have passed and still it only seems a moment ago. We haven't forgotten."

	Nathan Collett lit a candle on 10/08/2007: "A true mentor who changed my life for the better. A great man, whose memory lives in all those who knew him."

	Lillian Small lit a candle on 11/13/2006: "A gentleman and a scholar. These two defined Kennell for me. I will always remember you and HI Reunion 02"

	Thelma Robins-Gould lit a candle on 10/23/2006: "10-23-06: Kennell was a Hampton classmate in the first African- American Studies Class offered. What a scholar!"

	Hallean Adkins-Hill lit a candle on 10/08/2006: "May you rest in peace. The days at Moton High School will always be remembered."

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