While in East Chicago, he began to pursue his dreams of becoming a boxer and found success with the Golden Gloves program. He soon got a job in East Chicago at Inland Steel Company, but did not finish high school. When he was 18, his father remarried, and he moved to East Chicago to live with his mother, two brothers, and sister. After his parents separated when he was twelve, his mother, two brothers, and sister moved to East Chicago, Indiana, a suburb outside Chicago in Northwest Indiana, while he moved with his father to Oakland, California. Jackson recalled from his early childhood that his father was domineering and strict, and he described himself in his memoir The Jacksons as a 'lonely child that had only few friends'.

His great-grandfather, July 'Jack' Gale, was a US Army scout he was also an Indigenous American medicine man. According to the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and Katherine Jackson's book My Family, The Jacksons, his year of birth was 1929. Joseph Walter Jackson was born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas to Crystal Lee (née King May 1907–November 4, 1992) and Samuel Joseph Jackson (Ap– October 31, 1993) on July 26, 1928.

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