Giles Beecher Jackson (1853–1924) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist.

[5] Giles Beecher Jackson was born on August 13, 1853, in Goochland County, Virginia; he was African American and enslaved from birth.

[1] In 1888, he helped found a bank affiliated with the United Order of True Reformers,[1] an organization that started in Richmond as a temperance group, and expanded to other states into a business and Black fraternal society.

Jackson felt having the exhibition in a separate "Negro Building" allowed for a greater variety and completeness of presentation, and that it could better highlight their achievements.

In 1914, Jackson was appointed as Chief of the Negro Division of the United States Employment Service, an agency that helped find work for unemployed unskilled laborers.