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Jesse Jackson
Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
(born
Jesse Louis Burns
; October 8, 1941) is an
American
civil rights
activist
,
Baptist
minister
, and
politician
. He was a candidate for the
Democratic
presidential nomination
in 1984 and 1988 and served as a
shadow U.S. Senator
for the
District of Columbia
from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form
Rainbow/PUSH
. Former
U.S. Representative
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
is his eldest son. Jackson was also the host of
Both Sides with Jesse Jackson
on CNN from 1992 to 2000.
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