Background
Jones grew up in the Boxtown neighborhood of South Memphis where his father operated Jones Supermarket. As a youngster, he went in the grocery business with his father.
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Jones and his father also operated another South Memphis grocery store, Jones Big Star. He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and Michigan State University. He was a Democrat. He was succeeded by Barbara Cooper.
Jones was the Tennessean delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1996.
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Membership
She was a member of the Memphis State Eight, the first group of African-American students to attend the University of Memphis, five years after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of desegregation in Brown v.
