He attended Grambling State University, threw right-handed, batted left-handed, and was listed at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 168 pounds (76 kg).

The following season, he was moved up to the class-A Pueblo Dodgers, and made his major league debut in July.

He played 24 games for the Cubs, with just 6 hits in 35 at-bats, including his first and only major league home run off Ray Semproch of the Philadelphia Phillies on August 3, 1958.

Jackson wound up spending just one season in the Cincinnati organization before being acquired by the independent Toronto Maple Leafs.

[2] He spent the rest of 1964 and all of 1965 with the Rochester Red Wings, the Orioles' top minor league club.