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Jesse Jackson was born
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Scholarship
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. -
Marriage!!!!
Jesse Jackson gets married to Jacqueline Lavinia Brown. He would later confess to having an affair while being married to her. -
Jesse Jackson founded PUSH
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 -
Jesse ran for president
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Jackson was awarded the Spingarn
The Springarn is a medal given my the NAACP to special individuals for roles in civil rights activism. -
He cowrote a book with his son
This book, titled, Legal Lynching, protested the death penalty. -
Jesse led protests against a school in Decatur for expelling black students.
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. -
Criticizing the 'Bama
Jesse criticized Barack Obama for "acting white"
