Jewel Simon

In 1931 she accepted a position as a mathematics teacher at Jack Yates High School in Houston, and shortly later was promoted to the head of the department.^[1]

In Atlanta she began art training at her home. Though she was producing paintings and sculptures, she faced obstacles as a black artist, and was not able to protect her intellectual property until 1952. She graduated with a fine arts degree at the University of Atlanta in 1967. She exhibited in traveling shows reaching Texas, California, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Soviet Union, and New Zealand.^[1]

Simon married Edward Lloyd Simon on February 19, 1939. They moved to Atlanta, where she became a housewife. They had two children, Ed and Margaret.^[1]