Walter Clinton Jackson (1879 - 1959)

Walter Clinton Jackson was born in Hayston, Georgia, on June 28, 1879. He was a faculty member of the State Normal and Industrial College of North Carolina, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as professor and head of the Department of History. He held several positions at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He retired in 1950 and died in Greensboro on August 12, 1959. The campus library building was named for Jackson in 1960.