Joh'Vonnie Jackson
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Jackson at an event in 2007
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| Born |
Joseph Walter Jackson July 26, 1928 Fountain Hill, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Talent manager |
| Spouse(s) | Katherine Scruse (m. 1949) |
| Children | 11 (See below) |
| Parent(s) | Samuel Jackson (1893-1993) (age 100) Crystal Lee King (1907-1999) (age 92) |
| Relatives | Israel Nero Jackson (1838-1934) (grandfather) (age 96) Jack July Jackson (1803-1908) (great-grandfather) (age 105) |
| Family | Jackson |
| Website | www |
Joseph Walter Jackson (born July 26, 1928) is an American talent manager, and is the patriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers which includes the pop icons Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.
Jackson was born to Samuel Jackson (1893–1993), a schoolteacher, and Crystal Lee King (1907–1999), in Fountain Hill, Arkansas, on July 26, 1928 (born in 1929, according to the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and Katherine Jackson's book My Family, The Jacksons). Jackson was the eldest of five children, which included brothers Lawrence (died 2017) and Luther and sisters Lula Mae and Verna Mae. Samuel was the son of Israel Nero Jackson (1838–1934), a slave. Israel was the son of Jack July Jackson (1803–1908), an indigenous choctaw of the Plantation of Gale. Jackson is of African and distant Native American Ancestry.
Joe Jackson recalled from early childhood that his father was domineering and strict, and he described himself as a "lonely child that had only few friends" in his memoirs, The Jacksons. After his parents separated when he was twelve, his mother, two brothers, and sister moved to East Chicago, Indiana, a suburb outside Chicago in northwest Indiana, and he moved with his father to Oakland, California. When he was 18, after his father remarried, he moved to East Chicago to live with his mother, two brothers, and sister. He soon got a job in East Chicago at Inland Steel Company, but did not finish high school. While in East Chicago, he began to pursue his dreams of becoming a boxer and found success with the Golden Gloves program. While he was preparing for a professional boxing career, he met 17-year-old Katherine Scruse, who also lived in East Chicago and attended Washington High School; Joe married another woman and in less than a year he was divorced before he started dating Katherine.
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