I thought Jesse Jackson died? Is this felon junior? Anxious to disarm law-abiding African-Americans? How’s that working in Chicago and elsewhere around the US?
As a young child, Jackson was taunted by other children about his out-of-wedlock birth, and has said these experiences helped motivate him to succeed. Living under Jim Crow segregation laws, Jackson was taught to go to the back of the bus and use separate water fountains—practices he accepted until the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. He attended the racially segregated Sterling High School in Greenville, where he was elected student class president, finished tenth in his class, and earned letters in baseball, football and basketball.
Upon graduating from high school in 1959, he accepted a contract from a minor league professional baseball team so that he could attend the University of Illinois on a football scholarship. After his second semester at the predominantly white school, Jackson transferred to North Carolina A&T, a historically black university in Greensboro, North Carolina. Accounts of the reasons for this transfer differ. Jackson has claimed that he changed schools because racial prejudice prevented him from playing quarterback and limited his participation on a competitive public-speaking team.
Born Jesse Louis Burns
October 8, 1941 (age 77)
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Jacqueline Brown (m. 1962)
Children 6, including Santita, Jesse, and Jonathan
Education University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (BS)
Chicago Theological Seminary (MDiv)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson