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Jesse Louis Jackson [1] ( né Burns; born October 8, 1941) [1] 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 ...
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3 days ago · 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 Democratic presidential nomination.
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Nov 9, 2009 · Jesse Jackson’s Childhood and Education . Jesse Louis Burns was born October 8, 1941, in Greensville, South Carolina.His mother, Helen Burns, was 16; his father, Noah Louis Robinson, was a ...
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 civil-rights icon ...
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Apr 3, 2014 · Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president.
Oct 7, 2021 · The Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Operation PUSH, pokes a finger at Benjamin Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post, as they discuss issues on the floor of Madison Square Garden on July 13 ...
Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on 8 October 1941 to an unmarried, teenage mother. Jackson was both an honor student and class president in high school, and he received an athletic scholarship to the University of Illinois in 1959. He moved back to South Carolina after one year, however, transferring to Greensboro’s North ...
