Jesse Jackson

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Noun1.Jesse Jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
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In 1984, I was in New Hampshire with Reverend Jesse Jackson for one of that year's Democratic presidential primary debates.
Previous honourees include the Reverend Jesse Jackson, singer-songwriter Lauryn Hill, broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien, former secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and the late world-champion boxer Muhammad Ali.
EXCLUSIVE BY EMILY RETTER ON the eve of World Parkinson's Day, American civil rights campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson shares his battle with the condition.
His parents were both prominent in the Civil Rights Movement and close friends of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Malcolm X.
Reverend Jesse Jackson called her a "sister beloved, of substance and sound".
They were supported by well-known speakers, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, a prominent US human rights activist.
In May 2014, the Reverend Jesse Jackson traveled from his home in Chicago to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, to address the search giant's annual shareholder meeting.
funeral, rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson told Reuters: "I think people will be under control.
In the news PRESIDENT of the United States Ronald Reagan meets with Navy lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
The Prince of Wales attended the service along with prominent US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, entrepreneur Richard Branson and broadcaster Oprah Winfrey.
THE Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, a civil rights campaigner who has been advocating for Sutay's freedom, was also thanked.