For over six decades, Reverend Jesse Jackson has shaped American civil rights, politics ... played a significant role in the Chicago Freedom Movement. After Dr. King's assassination in 1968 ...

South Carolina native Jesse Jackson became involved in sit-ins while in college and joined the SCLC in 1965. In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the civil rights movement north with a campaign ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the nation’s most recognized civil rights leaders, is founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights organization in Chicago. He was a ...

(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The crowd rose to a standing ovation as Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil-rights activist and Democratic political leader, appeared onstage in a wheelchair. Jackson ...

Both organizations were founded by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement. Attendees at the breakfast included Chicago ...

Jackson, as the son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights warrior and founder of Rainbow PUSH, is a member of the most famous family in Black politics. That pedigree took him to Congress to ...

Jesse Jackson, Otis Moss ... Congressman John Lewis calls him the “patron saint” of the Civil Rights Movement. Actor Keith David voices Thurman’s words. Backs Against the Wall: The Howard ...

Although the prospect of civil rights and equality for African Americans ... became more involved in local and national politics. Jesse Jackson twice sought to gain the Democratic Presidential ...