Last updated on:
6/10/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Jesse L. Jackson, MDiv Biography
- Title:
- Reverend and President of National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Inc.
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of July 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Founder and President, National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Inc., 1986-present
- Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2000
- Founder, Wall Street Project, 1997
- Senator, District of Columbia, 1991-1996
- Founder and Executive Director, Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity), 1971-1986
- National Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 1967-1971
- Ordained Baptist Minister, 1968
- Chicago Coordinator of Operation Breadbasket for SCLC, 1966-1967
- Joins Martin Luther King, Jr and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 1965
- Council on Racial Equality (CORE) delegate to the Young Democrats National Convention, 1964
- Education:
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- Master of Divinity, 2000
- Attended Chicago Theological Seminary, 1964-1966
- BA, Sociology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, 1964
- Attended University of Illinois, 1959-1960
- Other:
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- Democratic Presidential Candidate, 1987-1988
- Democratic Presidential Candidate, 1983-1984
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