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Walter Clinton Jackson
1879–1959
A longtime North Carolina educator and university leader, he helped shape what is now UNC Greensboro and wrote about the state's past. His career joined teaching, public service, and college administration over the first half of the 20th century.
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A boys' life of Booker T. Washington
by Walter Clinton Jackson
About the author
Born in Hayston, Georgia, in 1879, Walter Clinton Jackson studied at Mercer University and later built his career in education and history. In 1909 he joined the faculty of the State Normal and Industrial College of North Carolina, the school that became UNC Greensboro, where he taught history and eventually moved into senior leadership.
Jackson served for many years as dean of administration and from 1934 to 1950 led the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina as chancellor. Sources on his life consistently describe him as a major figure in the growth of the institution, and the campus library was later named in his honor.
Alongside his academic work, he also wrote and edited historical material connected with North Carolina. He died in 1959, remembered chiefly as an educator and administrator whose influence on higher education in the state lasted well beyond his own lifetime.