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Bookmark or Share- Jesse Jackson | Biography, Accomplishments, Health, & FactsJesse 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 ...
- Jesse Jackson - Reverend, Age & MLK | HISTORYCivil rights leader and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson (1941–) became one of the most influential African-Americans of the late 20th century. He rose to prominence ...
- Jesse Jackson - WikipediaCivil rights activist Al Sharpton said he considers Jackson his mentor and added, "the resignation of Reverend Jesse Jackson is the pivoting of one of the most productive, prophetic, and dominant figures in the struggle for social justice in American history". Electoral history
- Reverend Jesse L. Jackson's Biography - The HistoryMakersBiography. Prominent civil rights activist and political leader Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. was born Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina to Helen Jackson and Noah Robinson.
- How Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition Championed DiversityRev. Jesse Jackson shakes hands at the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Freedom March, also known as the "March on Washington," during his run for president in ...
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