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Alabama Football: A look back at Alabama’s first successful black running back, Wilbur Jackson

In honor of Black History Month, the staff writers at Touchdown Alabama Magazine will be honoring the excellence regarding African American football players from the University of Alabama.

We will be putting together a series of articles — one per day — documenting those players who paved the way for others to have success wearing the crimson and white.

The second name we will highlight is Wilbur Jackson.

Before he would be joined by John Mitchell at the University of Alabama in 1971, Jackson was a star athlete at D.