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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Katherine Jackson.
CHILDHOOD
1930
Birth
Born on May 4, 1930.
TEENAGE
1947
17 Years Old
In 1947, Katherine met Joseph Jackson.
1949
19 Years Old
After a year-long courtship that started after Jackson annulled an early marriage, they married in November 1949.
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THIRTIES
1963
33 Years Old
In 1963, Joe Jackson formed The Jackson Brothers with three of their eldest sons Jackie, Tito and Jermaine.
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1966
36 Years Old
A year later, Joe enlisted Michael and older brother Marlon Jackson into the group not as vocalists, but as backing instrumentalists, playing percussion. It wouldn't be until 1966 that Joe Jackson began to see seven-year-old Michael's overall talents three years after Katherine's discovery.
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1967
37 Years Old
In 1967, after winning several talent shows in Gary, Joe Jackson decided to make the group a professional act.
1969
39 Years Old
It was then that Katherine began designing the group's costumes, which she continued until the group found fame months after signing with Motown Records in 1969.
FORTIES
1970
40 Years Old
During the Jackson 5's 1970-71 heyday, Katherine - along with her three daughters and youngest son - was barely mentioned in the press.
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1974
44 Years Old
She detailed that her husband on more than a few occasions had committed adultery, one of which resulted in the birth of a daughter named Joh'Vonnie Jackson with another woman named Cheryl Terrell on August 30, 1974.
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FIFTIES
1982
52 Years Old
On his 1982 album, Thriller, Michael Jackson dedicated the album to her.
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1984
54 Years Old
Katherine started to become part of her husband's management team when the grown-up members of the group (which renamed themselves The Jacksons after splitting from Motown in 1975) reunited for the Victory Tour in 1984.
1985
55 Years Old
In 1985, acknowledging what was then a positive impact on her children's successful music careers, national urban magazine Essence honored her as "Mother of the Year".
LATE ADULTHOOD
1990
60 Years Old
In 1990, Jackson released her autobiography, My Family, which documented her early years and her relationship with her husband and their children, eight of whom wrote salutes to their mother in the book's foreword.
1991
61 Years Old
In her 1991 memoirs, La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family, La Toya alleged that Katherine was emotionally abusive, charges Katherine denied to the press and blamed Gordon, who married La Toya in 1989, for "brainwashing" her.
1992
62 Years Old
Katherine Jackson was portrayed by Angela Bassett in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream.
1997
67 Years Old
In 1997, La Toya and Katherine reconciled after she filed for divorce from Gordon.
2004
74 Years Old
Patricia Idlette portrayed her in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story.
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On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died after suffering a cardiac arrest.
2012
82 Years Old
On July 25, 2012, Katherine's guardianship of the children was suspended by the court amid allegations that she may have been held against her will by several Jackson family members as a result of a financial dispute between those family members and the Michael Jackson Estate.
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