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 ...

For over six decades, Reverend Jesse Jackson has shaped American civil rights, politics ... played a significant role in the ...

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 ...

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 ...