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Jesse Louis Jackson [1] (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.Beginning as a young protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, Jackson maintained his status as a prominent civil rights leader throughout his political and theological career for over seven decades.
Parkinson’s disease has slowed The Rev. Jesse Jackson. At 83 years old he is wheelchair bound and needs assistance to stand up. Jackson's words form slowly when he chooses to speak.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Saturday that he will step down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Chicago-based civil rights group he founded more than 50 years ago.
Jackson’s 1988 campaign is credited with pushing Democrats left on issues still debated within the party today, including health care, social welfare spending, and U.S. relations with Israel.
Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is an American politician. ... 2012, citing his health problems and acknowledging the ethics investigations. ...
Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson left a Chicago rehabilitation hospital on Wednesday after being treated for Parkinson's disease following a breakthrough COVID-19 case, CBS Chicago ...
In May 1983, Jackson became the first African-American man since Reconstruction to address a joint session of the Alabama Legislature, where he said it was "about time we forgot about black and white and started talking about employed and unemployed." Art Harris saw Jackson as "testing the waters for a black presidential candidacy down South". [4]
Jackson, 79, was transferred from Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital to The Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, where he will immediately begin therapy to treat his Parkinson's disease, Jonathan said.