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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jesse_JacksonJesse Jackson - Wikipedia

    Jackson hosted Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to 2000. He has been a critic of police brutality, the Republican Party, and conservative policies, and is regarded as one of the most influential African-American activists of the 21st century.

  2. www.britannica.com › biography › Jesse-JacksonJesse Jackson | Biography, Accomplishments, Health, & Facts

    Jun 5, 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.

  3. www.biography.com › activists › jesse-jacksonJesse Jackson - Age, Civil Rights & Presidential Campaign

    Apr 3, 2014 · Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president.

  4. www.history.com › topics › black-historyJesse Jackson - Reverend, Age & MLK | HISTORY

    Nov 9, 2009 · Jesse Jackson was a noted civil rights leader before founding what became the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and emerging as a U.S. presidential candidate in the 1980s. Skip to content Shows This Day In...

  5. www.history.com › news › mlk-assassination-jesseJesse Jackson on MLK: One Bullet Couldn’t Kill the Movement

    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 ...

  6. www.chicagotribune.com › 2021/10/07 › highlights-inHighlights in the life of Rev. Jesse Jackson: Minister, civil ...

    Oct 7, 2021 · The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, left, points out his family members to President Bill Clinton after Jackson was awarded the Presidential Medal of ...

  7. www.npr.org › 2023/07/17 › 1188183475After more than five decades, Rev. Jesse Jackson steps down ...

    Jul 17, 2023 · After more than five decades, the Rainbow-Push Coalition has a new leader. Yesterday the Reverend Jesse Jackson stepped down as its president, and now a Dallas minister, Frederick Douglass...