Rev. Jesse Jackson #1457
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Rev. Jesse Jackson
“ When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields
said I'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is
nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles
by the Jewish people against their oppressors."
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Once an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson has been a political
activist and public figure since the civil rights days of the 1960s. Jackson, a
Baptist minister, is the founder of the non-profit organization PUSH (People
United to Save Humanity). In the 1980s he was a regular presence at rallies
and protests, especially on the topic of civil rights but also in other areas.
He has several times been an unofficial U.S. envoy in diplomatic missions;
in 1999 he helped secure the release of three American military prisoners
from Yugoslavia. He made unsuccessful runs for the Democratic nomination
for U.S. president in 1984 and 1988, losing to Walter Mondale in 1984 and
to Michael Dukakis in 1988. Both elections were ultimately won by Republican
candidates: Ronald Reagan (1984) and George Bush Sr. (1988). He married
the former Jacqueline Lavinia in 1962. Their son, Jesse Jr., was elected to
the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994... The elder Jackson admitted in
2001 that he was the father of a daughter, Ashley, who had been born out of
wedlock in 1999 after Jackson had an affair with a worker at the Washington
PUSH offices... Jackson is no relation to pop star Michael Jackson.
