[citation needed] By mid-1925, she had become the lead performer in Wilbur Sweatman's Creole Revue, touring the Eastern Seaboard and Canada.
[1] In January 1926, director David Belasco cast Jackson in Lulu Belle, a melodramatic play staged on Broadway.
Jackson had a minor role in the beginning of the play as a Harlem entertainer in the fictional Elite Grotto nightclub.
[citation needed] Jackson was also performing at Harlem's Club Alabam, known for its semi-nude Josephine Baker-esque revues.
[citation needed] The two-act musical comedy was set in Madagascar and Harlem and featured Miller & Lyles with Daniel L. Haynes and Josephine Hall.
[citation needed] However, Lawrence Benjamin Brown, who was touring Europe with Paul Robeson, suggested that Jackson visit him in Paris.
A short piece in The Afro-American on December 17 said: "Zaidee Jackson, formerly of the Rang Tang company, has left for Europe where she will join her friends, Lawrence Brown and Paul Robeson".
[2] Having performed on stage in Cannes for several weeks in early 1928,[citation needed] Jackson moved to London where she was well received.
[5] On June 27, 1930, the weekly newspaper La Semaine à Paris carried an advert for a Russian-themed Sheherazade Cabaret with Jackson as one of the leading performers.
[9] In October 1937, Jackson sailed from Cherbourg to New York on the RMS Queen Mary to begin a ten-month night club engagement there and in Philadelphia.
[citation needed] As Romania was allied to Nazi Germany, Jackson was largely unaffected by World War II until the Red Army invasion in August 1944.
Theatres, cabarets and cinemas were shut down so Jackson was unable to perform again until the war ended and the entertainment venues reopened.
[citation needed] From 1945, Jackson continued her Restaurant Zissu residency until the end of 1947 when it was closed down.
In April 1955, her sister wrote directly to President Eisenhower who was sympathetic and promised prompt action.