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Jesse Jackson
(1941-)
Who Is Jesse Jackson?
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.
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He was later appointed special envoy to Africa, and in 2000 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In late 2017, the civil rights leader announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Early Years & Education
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 married Charles Henry Jackson, a post office maintenance worker, who later adopted Jesse.
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