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In 1959, Jesse Jackson received a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. However, he left because of the poor treatment that him and the other blacks were getting there.
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Jesse Jackson gets married to Jacqueline Lavinia Brown. He would later confess to having an affair while being married to her.
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PUSH, or (People United to Save Humanity) was founded to fight for equal rights, it has recently formed with the Rainbow Coalition to become the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
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The Springarn is a medal given my the NAACP to special individuals for roles in civil rights activism.
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This book, titled, Legal Lynching, protested the death penalty.
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He protested this school in Decatur for expelling black students. These students were expelled to quickly and easily according to Jackson. He was later arrested.
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Jesse criticized Barack Obama for "acting white"
