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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).In 1966 he helped found the Chicago branch of Operation ...
JESSE JACKSON. Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious, and political figures. Over the past 60 years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for peace, civil rights, racial and gender equality, economic, and social justice ...
Jesse Jackson nació el 8 de octubre de 1941 en Greenville (Carolina del Sur). Familia Hijo de Helen Burns, quien lo tuvo cuando era una estudiante de secundaria de dieciséis años, y de Noah Louis Robinson, un vecino casado de treinta y tres años. Robinson fue boxeador profesional.
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 ...
16 de jul. de 2023 · Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jesse Jackson tritt als Vorsitzender der von ihm gegründeten Bürgerrechtsorganisation zurück. Er ist einer der bedeutendsten schwarzen Bürgerrechtsaktivisten der USA und ...
30 de mar. de 2018 · Rev. Jackson, who was part of King’s inner circle in 1968—and witnessed his assassination—weighs in on that shocking moment, its turbulent aftermath and carrying forth the dream.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., geboren als Jesse Louis Burns (Greenville (South Carolina), 8 oktober 1941) is een Amerikaanse baptistenpredikant, politicus en burgerrechtenactivist. Na een onvoltooide studie theologie werd Jackson een naaste medewerker van Martin Luther King en hij stond aan diens zijde toen King werd vermoord.
