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Jun 5, 2024 · Jesse Jackson (born October 8, 1941, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.) is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and politician whose bids for the U.S. presidency (in the Democratic Party’s nomination races in 1983–84 and 1987–88) were the most successful by an African American until 2008, when Barack Obama captured the ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president.
Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.
Nov 9, 2009 · Jesse Jackson was a noted civil rights leader before founding what became the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and emerging as a U.S. presidential candidate in the 1980s.
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.
Feb 1, 2013 · Jesse Jackson is a civil rights activist who marched in Selma, Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and later became a leading national spokesman for African Americans.
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).
Jesse Jackson: Chronology. 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...
Jesse Louis Jackson is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. Beginning as a young protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, Jackson maintained his status as a prominent civil rights leader throughout his political and theological career for over seven decades.
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. 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.
