By Pat James, GoHeels.com
The third African-American to earn a degree in journalism from UNC, Walter Jackson, class of 1967, often felt isolated as a student.
Speaking Saturday at a Black History Month panel discussion organized by the Carolina Athletics, Jackson recalled being able to easily count the number of African-American undergraduates on campus during his freshman year in 1963. Rarely would he be in a class with another African-American. And there wasn't a single African-American faculty member for three more years.
"It was a different world," said Jackson, who went on to serve in Vietnam before becoming the first African-American news reporter for the Durham Herald-Sun.