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10 de may. de 2024 · 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 ...
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- Who Is Jesse Jackson?
- Early Years & Education
- Family
- Marching with Martin Luther King
- Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
- Running For President
- Later Years: Obama, Secret Love Child & Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
While an undergraduate, Jesse Jackson became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1965, he went to Selma, Alabama, to march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.In the 1980s, he became a leading national spokesman for African Americans. He was later appointed special envoy to Africa, and in 2000 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In l...
A pioneering and controversial civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson was born as Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina. His parents, Helen Burns, a high school student at the time of her son's birth, and Noah Robinson, a 33-year-old married man who was her neighbor, never married. A year after Jesse's birth, his mother ma...
It was during this time that he also met Jacqueline Lavinia Brown, whom he married in 1962. The couple has five children together: Santita (b. 1963), Jesse Jr. (b. 1965), Jonathan Luther (b. 1966), Yusef DuBois (b. 1970) and Jacqueline Lavinia (b. 1975).
In 1964, Jackson graduated from college with a degree in sociology. The next year he went to Selma, Alabama, to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., eventually becoming a worker in King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1966, he moved his young family to Chicago, where he did graduate work at the Chicago Theological Seminary....
The same year Jackson left the SCLC, he founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). Jackson created the organization, based in Chicago, in order to advocate Black self-help and in a sense let it serve as his political pulpit. In 1984, Jackson established the National Rainbow Coalition, whose mission was to establish equal rights for Af...
As Jackson's national profile increased, so did his political involvement. Beginning in the late 1970s, he began traveling around the world to mediate or spotlight problems and disputes. He visited South Africa in 1979 and spoke out against the country's apartheid policies, and later traveled to the Middle East to throw his support behind the creat...
While Jackson declined to run for the U.S. presidency again, he continued to be a force on the political stage, pushing for African American rights and serving as a featured speaker at Democratic conventions. In 1990 he won his first election, when he captured one of two special unpaid "statehood senator" posts created by the Washington City Counci...
On November 17, 2017, Jackson revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. "My family and I began to notice changes about three years ago," he wrote in a statement. "After a battery of tests, my physicians identified the issue as Parkinson's disease, a disease that bested my father." He added that he viewed his diagnosis as "a sign...
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 ...
9 de nov. de 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. He rose to prominence ...
Jesse Louis Jackson (Senior) (n. 8 de octubre de 1941) es un activista por los derechos civiles y pastor bautista en los Estados Unidos. Fue candidato a las primarias presidenciales del Partido Demócrata en 1984 y 1988 y ejerció como senador de facto para el Distrito de Columbia desde 1991 hasta 1997.
Reconocido como uno de los más importantes activistas por los derechos de los afroamericanos en Estados Unidos. Partido político: Partido Demócrata. Padres: Helen Burns y Noah Louis Robinson. Cónyuge: Jacqueline Brown (m. 1962) Hijos: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Yusef DuBois, Jonathan, Santita, Jacqueline Lavinia, Ashley. Nombre: Jesse Louis Jackson.
Born: October 18, 1941. Greenville, South Carolina. African American political leader, religious minister, and orator. Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has spent decades in the public eye in support of ending racial and class divisions in America.
