Jesse Jackson (born in 1941) was an American Democrat politician, campaigner for minority rights.

Short Biography:

He contested his party's 1984 and 1988 presidential nominations in an effort to increase voter registration and to put black issues on the national agenda. He is a notable public speaker.

Born in North Carolina and educated in Chicago, Jackson emerged as a powerful Baptist preacher and black activist politician, working first with the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, then on building the political machine that gave Chicago a black mayor in 1983.

He sought to construct what he called a rainbow coalition, comprising ethnic-minority and socially deprived groups. He took the lead in successfully campaigning for US disinvestment in South Africa in 1986.

Why is Jesse Jackson famous?

Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister.

Jesse Jackson Lists

	1941 births
	African American politicians
	African American religious leaders
	African Americans' rights activists
	Baptist ministers from the United States
	American football quarterbacks
	Baptists from the United States
	Illinois Fighting Illini football players
	Living people
	North Carolina A&T Aggies football players
	People from Chicago, Illinois
	People from Greenville, South Carolina
	Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
	United States presidential candidates, 1984
	United States presidential candidates, 1988
	African American United States presidential candidates
	United States Shadow Senators from District of Columbia
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni
	Jackson family (Chicago)
	Reparations for slavery
	Spingarn Medal winners

 

Jesse Jackson Movies
Malcolm X Save the Children Wattstax Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip In Remembrance of Martin Decade American Dream Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones Malcolm X The Last Party Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream Last Party 2000 See How They Run Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake... Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
Jesse Jackson Filmography

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Category: Politicians  - ( Politicians Archive)

Date Added: 03 May '12

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