Rajo Jack (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dewey Gatson, better known as Rajo Jack or his pseudonym Jack DeSoto, (July 28, 1905 in Tyler, Texas - February 27, 1956) was an American racecar driver. He is known as one of the first African American racers in America. He won races up and down the West Coast of the United States in stock cars, midgets, big cars and motorcycles. Rajo Jack was inducted in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in 2003 and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2007. Rajo Jack was the oldest of six children. He was raised by his parents Noah Gatson and his mother Frances Scott in Texas. Noah Gatson had steady work with a railroad, which kept his family in a better financial state than other African-Americans in Texas.