Walter A. Jackson

Walter A. Jackson (1950-2015) was an American historian and author specializing in U.S. intellectual history and race relations. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Duke University and Ph.D. from Harvard University, later becoming a tenured professor at North Carolina State University. His notable works include Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Prize and Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award, and he was completing a biography of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal at the time of his death.Walker's Funeral Home obituary, NC State memorial, Goodreads