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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Reverend Jesse L. Jackson
Reverend Jesse L. Jackson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jackson, Jesse, 1941- interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 February 28.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 March 1.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 March 2.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 March 9.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 March 11.
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| Summary: | Civil rights, religious and political leader Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. was born Jesse Louis Burns on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1960, Jackson attended North Carolina A&T University. He became involved in the Civil Rights Movement joining Greensboro's chapter of the Council on Racial Equality (CORE). In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appointed Jackson to head Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. It was renamed Operation PUSH in 1971 and Jackson became its founder. Jackson ran for President of the United States in 1984 and 1988. As a Democratic candidate, he garnered massive support and helped to register two million new voters. In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed Jackson as special envoy for democracy in Kenya and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000. He has been awarded over forty honorary degrees and received the NAACP Spingarn Award and been listed as one of the top ten most respected Americans.
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