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Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (Greenville, 8 de outubro de 1941) é um pastor batista e ativista político norte-americano. Participou, ao lado de Martin Luther King, Jr. da luta pelos direitos civis para os negros nos EUA e foi 2 vezes pré-candidato do Partido Democrata (em 1984 e 1988) às eleições presidenciais no país. [1]
Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.
10 de mai. 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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Jesse Jackson, nome original Jesse Louis Burns, (nascido em 8 de outubro de 1941, Greenville, Carolina do Sul, EUA), líder americano dos direitos civis, ministro batista e político cujas propostas para o Presidência dos EUA (nas corridas de nomeação do Partido Democrata em 1983-84 e 1987-88) foram os mais bem-sucedidos por um afro ...
- At A Glance…
- Joined King and The SCLC in 1965
- Ran For President
- From D.C. to Wall Street
- Diplomatic Efforts
- Sought Answers in Suspicious Hanging Death
- Never Far from Controversy
- Sources
Born Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, SC; son of Noah Robinson and Helen Burns Jackson; adopted by stepfather, Charles Henry Jackson, 1957; married Jacqueline Lavinia Davis, 1964; children: Santita, Jesse Louis, Jr., Jonathan Luther, Yusef Du Bois, Jacqueline Lavinia; grandchildren: Jessica and Jonathan. Education: Attended Univ...
Jackson joined Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1965 during demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, pushing for expanded voting rights for blacks. When the SCLC launched the Chicago Freedom movement in 1966, Jackson was there to put his knowledge of the city and contacts within the black community to wor...
Jackson launched his first campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984. His appeals for social programs, voting rights, and affirmative action for those neglected by Reaganomics earned him strong showings in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C. He received 3.5 million votes, enough to secure a measure...
In 1997 Jackson shifted his focus from the nation’s political capital to its financial capital. Seeing a need for a stronger minority presence on New York’s Wall Street, Jackson founded the Wall Street Project. The organization lobbied companies to provide more business and employment opportunities for minorities. The Wall Street Project promoted c...
Throughout his career as a political and social activist, Jackson has also been a prominent figure in international diplomacy. In 1979 he traveled to South Africa to speak out against apartheid and to the Middle East to try to establish relations between Israel and the Palestinians. In January of 1984 he returned to the Middle East to negotiate the...
When teenager Raynard Johnson was found hanging by a belt from the pecan tree in front of his home in Kokomo, Mississippi, in 2000, suspicions arose immediately that his death may have been a lynching. Although medical examiners found no evidence of struggle, Johnson’s parents could not believe that their son had committed suicide. Jackson did not ...
Jackson has stirred both admiration and criticism. His behavior in the hours immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., was a subject of controversy: Jackson claimed that he had held the dying leader, heard his last words, and had his shirt stained by King’s blood. Other SCLC officers present at the murder have disputed thos...
Books
Abernathy, Ralph David, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down,Harper, 1989. Colton, Elizabeth O., The Jackson Phenomenon: The Man, the Power, the Message,Doubleday, 1989. Reynolds, Barbara A., Jesse Jackson: America’s David,JFJ Associates, 1985.
Periodicals
Africa News Service,May 24, 1999; May 17, 2000. Black Enterprise,October 1998. Business Wire,January 5, 2000. Christian Science Monitor,August 15, 1989. Commonweal,November 7, 1986. Ebony,February 1999. Harper’s Magazine,March 1969. Jet,July 22, 1996; May 24, 1999; December 27, 1999; June 19, 2000; July, 17, 2000; August 28, 2000; September 4, 2000. Mother Jones,March 2000. Newsweek,April 4, 1988; October 16, 1989; January 29, 1990; May 10, 1999. United Press International,May 4, 1999; May 10...
3 de abr. de 2014 · Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. é um pastor batista e ativista político norte-americano. Participou, ao lado de Martin Luther King, Jr. da luta pelos direitos civis para os negros nos EUA e foi 2 vezes pré-candidato do Partido Democrata às eleições presidenciais no país.
