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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 career ...
Aug 20, 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.
Apr 3, 2014 · Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president.
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.
Jul 15, 2023 · The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he's stepping down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Chicago-based civil rights group he founded more than 50 years ago.
Aug 20, 2024 · The opening of the Democratic convention recognized Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist and Democratic presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988.
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 ...
Aug 19, 2024 · Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. receives standing ovation on Day 1 of DNC Jackson, 82, entered the stage in a wheelchair, holding up both thumbs up in triumph to a cheering crowd.
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 17, 2015 · The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson. Through five decades, Jesse Jackson has been trying to realize the promise of his own potential he first embraced as a boy in segregated Greenville, South...