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Nov 9, 2009 · Civil rights leader and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson (1941–) became one of the most influential African-Americans of the late 20th century. He rose to prominence ...
Born: October 18, 1941. Greenville, South Carolina. African American political leader, religious minister, and orator. Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has spent decades in the public eye in support of ending racial and class divisions in America.
Jesse Jackson, orig. Jesse Louis Burns, (born Oct. 8, 1941, Greenville, S.C., U.S.), U.S. civil rights leader. He became involved with the civil rights movement as a college student. In 1965 he went to Selma, Ala., to march with Martin Luther King, Jr., and began working for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Mar 30, 2018 · One of the people with King the day he was killed was a 26-year-old rising figure in the movement named Jesse Jackson, Jr. In the last 50 years, he himself has become a national...
October 8, 1941. Jesse Louis Burns born. 1956. Takes his stepfather's name. Becomes Jesse Louis Jackson. Spring 1959. Graduates from Sterling High School in Greenville, South Carolina. Fall...
Jesse Louis Jackson ( né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.
1941 - present. In his quest for social, racial and economic justice, Rev. Jesse Jackson has been civil rights activist, presidential candidate, and international hostage negotiator. While a student at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College in 1963, Jackson led protests to desegregate theaters and restaurants in Greensboro.
