American Dream
1990
Search results
Apr 3, 2014 · We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. 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 ...
Oct 7, 2021 · The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, left, points out his family members to President Bill Clinton after Jackson was awarded the Presidential Medal of ...
Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries. In 1966, Jesse Jackson began to lead Operation Breadbasket, a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) program in Chicago. Often seen as Martin Luther King’s protégé, Jackson quickly earned a place among King’s inner circle.
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).
Scholars. Jesse Jackson. © Dennis Brack/Black Star. Jesse Jackson fought for the rights of African Americans during the civil rights movement. Later on he became involved in politics and world affairs. Jesse Louis Burns was born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina.
Feb 28, 2013 · Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the life of civil rights activist and clergyman Jesse Jackson.
