George F. Jackson was born on 11/23/1920, and lived in the state of Oklahoma. In 1944, he was hired as a Poston camp III high school counselor & teacher. He resided in government housing located outside the camp during the year he taught there, and sympathized with the internees, according to his ex-spouse, Sandra Jackson.
He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran, and later earned a PhD. He taught U.S. and African American History at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California for 21 years until he retired in 1991. He contributed minority-affairs articles to The Sacramento Bee newspaper during 1970-1975. He had written and published the first edition of his book in 1975, "Black Women Makers of History a Portrait." In 1977, the book was reprinted by Sacramento printers, Fong & Fong. Dr. George F. Jackson died on 1/19/2004 in Sacramento. Sacramento Memorial Lawn Cemetery
