Levi Jackson (August 22, 1926[1] – December 7, 2000) was an American college football player and business executive.
Like Albie Booth before him, Jackson was a football standout at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut, and later at Yale.
Yale coach Howie Odell welcomed Jackson as a college football player, the 1946 Bulldogs achieving a 7–1–1 record, an Associated Press poll finish at 12, and a victory over Harvard, one of three during Jackson's four seasons with Yale.
Alongside his responsibilities while holding positions in labor relations, he was instrumental in setting up Ford's Minority Dealer Training Program,[6] and helped see that Ford hired 10,000 workers from within the city of Detroit, where he chose to live.
[8] Jackson was a longtime member of the Detroit YMCA Businessmen's Club, where he spent many hours holding court at the "main table.