Delilah Jackson (circa 1929 - January 12, 2013) was a cultural historian who specialized in collecting the history of black entertainers in Harlem.
[1] She began her collection with recording oral histories of various women who had worked as chorus girls at the Cotton Club.
[1] Later, that same year, she created the Black Patti Project which brought programming to former entertainers who were now living in nursing homes.
[3] Not only was Jackson known for preserving history, she often befriended the artists she met and visited them in nursing homes as they grew older.
[4] Her collection of history helped create a historical context for the artists and their work, according to the New York Amsterdam News.