CAMERON SENIOR HIGH PRINCIPALS
(1955-1971)  JOHN C. HULL was born 1906 in Palestine, Texas and educated in the public schools of Palestine and Nashville Davidson County schools. He received his BS degree from Howard University and Master of Arts from Fisk University in Nashville. Mr. Hull served as a classroom teacher for 4 years at Washington Jr. High, principals of Watkins Elementary 1939-1940, Peebles Elementary 1940-41, Carter-Lawrence Elementary 1941-1949, Cameron Jr and Sr. High 1949-1958 and Pearl High 1958-1971. He held memberships in several educational and civic associations in Nashville including the Tennessee Education Association, Metro Nashville Education Association, Tennessee Congress and Teachers, Meharry Mental Health Council, NAACP, South Street Community Center Board and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. Mr. Hull is now deceased. Due to the efforts of concerned Cameron alumni the Hull-Jackson Montessori School in Nashville was named in his honor in 1997 by the Metropolitan Nashville School Board.
 OSCAR ROBERTS JACKSON was born in 1915 in the South Nashville neighborhood near Cameron School. He was a 1931 graduate of Nashville’s Pearl High School and received his Bachelor’s degree from Tennessee State University and Master’s degree from the University of North Carolina. He was also involved in studies at Yale University (Certificate of Alcohol Studies), Mammouth College (Diploma in Reading) and performed post-graduate work at Fisk University. After graduating from North Carolina, he served as the Dean of Men at Natchez College in Mississippi and later at Tougaloo College also in Mississippi. He returned to Nashville in 1950 and taught for two years as a classroom teacher at the former Washington Junior High in North Nashville. In the Fall of 1952, he became principal of Carter-Lawrence Elementary School and served in that capacity until the Spring of 1958. In the Fall of 1958 he served as principal of Cameron High School until he retired in the Spring of 1970. His tenure at Cameron is respectively referred to by alumni as the "Jacksonian Era" because of his dominant impact on the school. Some of his professional, educational and civic memberships in Nashville included: Charter Member Bordeaux YMCA, Board of Directors of Nashville Urban League, Life Member of National Education Assn., National Assn of Secondary School Principals, Omega Psi Phi and Phi Delta Kappa Fraternities, 33rd Degree Mason and Frontiers International. Mr. Jackson is deceased. Due to the efforts of concerned Cameron alumni the Hull-Jackson Montessori School in Nashville was named in his honor in 1997. Additionally, in 2004 due to the efforts of Cameron High Historian Donald L. Johnson, the Cameron School auditorium was designated the O. R. Jackson Auditorium in his honor by the Metropolitan Nashville School Board.
 JAMES M. ROBINSON, born in McNairy County, Tennessee is a 1938 graduate of Tennessee's Gallatin High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Tennessee State University in 1948 and in 1950 earned his Master’s in Psychology from Howard University. Mr. Robinson worked at Fisk University as Asst. Research Psychologist for US Children’s Bureau from 1948-52 and began teaching at Pearl in 1952. He was the 1st black Assistant Principal in the Nashville City Schools serving in that position at Cameron High from 1957-64. He served as President of the Black Principal Assn. from 1959-62, President of the Teachers Benefit Association (TBA) 1962-64 and Black City Teachers Union (forerunner of MNEA) in 1964. He also served as principals of Rose Park from 1964-70, Cameron High 1970-71, West End Jr. High and Wharton. He was also elected the 1st President of Secondary Principal’s Assn (Integrated group) after the integration of Nashville's public schools in the 70s.
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