Age, Biography and Wiki
Levi Jackson was born on 22 August, 1926 in United States, is an American football player (1926–2000). Discover Levi Jackson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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74 years old |
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Leo |
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22 August, 1926 |
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22 August |
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7 December, 2000 |
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Levi Jackson Height, Weight & Measurements
At 74 years old, Levi Jackson height not available right now. We will update Levi Jackson's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Levi Jackson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Levi Jackson worth at the age of 74 years old? Levi Jackson’s income source is mostly from being a successful player. He is from United States. We have estimated Levi Jackson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Levi Jackson (August 22, 1926 – December 7, 2000) was the first African-American football captain at Yale University and the first African-American executive at Ford Motor Company.
He was a member of the Yale Class of 1950, and captained the 1949 football team, the election taken soon after the 1948 season.
Like Albie Booth before him, Jackson was a football standout at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut and Yale.
Jackson was born in Branford, Connecticut.
Jackson's father was a master steward and chef at Yale's Pierson College.
Jackson attended Yale on the G.I. Bill.
He attained the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps.
After playing football on the Camp Lee team in Virginia for the U.S. Army, he turned down an offer to play for the New York Giants.
That would have made him the first African-American to play in the modern National Football League.
Yale coach Howie Odell welcomed Jackson, the team achieving a 7–1–1 record, an Associated Press poll finish at 12, and a victory over Harvard.
Jackson's squads were 3–1 versus Harvard.
Jackson's election to the captaincy was unprecedented, given he was the first African-American to play football for Yale, but no surprise within the Yale community.
"The voting took only ten minutes. There was no one else. It had to be Levi," a Yale player recounted.
Jackson had lettered also for the varsity basketball team Jackson is understood to be the first African-American tapped for a Yale secret or senior society.
He was a member of the Berzelius Society (he was the first African-American student to join this society), the Aurelian Honor Society and of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Jackson was a long time member of the Detroit YMCA Businessmen's Club where he spent many hours holding court at the "main table."
After graduating from Yale, Jackson went to work for the Ford Motor Co. in 1950.
By 1962 he was an executive, the first African-American to reach that level at Ford; he was a Vice President when he retired in 1983.
Alongside his responsibilities while holding positions in labor relations, he was instrumental in setting up Ford's Minority Dealer Training Program and helped see that Ford hired 10,000 workers from within the city of Detroit, where he chose to live.
He was involved in his community, working with the New Detroit Committee after the 1967 Detroit riot, and served on the National Selective Service Appeal Board in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war.
