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Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.
Jun 5, 2024 · Jesse Jackson 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 for an African American until Barack Obama captured the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
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'Better together': Civil rights pioneer Jesse Jackson honored with justice award from EJI
The Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery recently presented civil rights pioneer Rev. Jesse Jackson with its Champion of Justice award. "Rev. Jackson has been at the forefront of civil rights ...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson to be honored at this year's Chicago Football Classic
Classic promotes Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The matchup is played every fall at Soldier Field—though it was canceled from 2020 through 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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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.
Apr 3, 2014 · Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president.
Mar 30, 2018 · Jesse Jackson on MLK: One Bullet Couldn’t Kill the Movement. Rev. Jackson, who was part of King’s inner circle in 1968—and witnessed his assassination—weighs in on that shocking moment ...
Feb 7, 2021 · Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has left the hospital for a rehabilitation center in Chicago after surgery, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Jul 17, 2023 · The Reverend Jesse Jackson is stepping down as the leader of the Rainbow-Push Coalition after more than a half century of activism.
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).
Nov 2, 2021 · The 80-year-old Chicago civil rights leader was entering a Howard University campus building when he fell and hit his head, according to Jackson spokesman Frank Watkins.
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.