Longtime Jackson State University educator Doris Saunders remembered during Womens History Month [Video]

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The name Doris Saunders is familiar to her former students at Jackson State University.

But what she accomplished before coming to JSU is also gaining attention thanks to her daughter who is sharing some of Saunders’s contributions to journalism, marketing, advertising, publishing, and history.

It’s something her daughter says especially deserves recognition during Women’s History Month.

The dining room table in Ann Saunders’s home is covered with pictures, history, and glimpses into her mother’s life.

Ann Saunders said, “Because they were moving into a new building or getting ready to, that meant the library had to be set up.”

Doris Saunders became the highest-ranking African American librarian at the Chicago Public Library in her early 20s. During that time her daughter says she wrote a letter to John Johnson …