Jesse Jackson: A Brief Biography
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Jesse Jackson was born on March eleventh, 1965 in Greensville, South Carolina.
He has since run for president in two elections, one in 1984, and one in 1988.
In the 1984 elections, he received over three million popular votes, and
registered over one million new voters. In 1988 he received over s ....
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.... New York City, "Hyme-town."
Hearing that remark coming from a civil rights leader shocked everybody, and
cost him millions of votes. Another scandal came along when he led over five
hundered Stanford University students singing, "Hey hey, ho ho. Western civ has
got to go!" Jesse Jackson boycotted the Academy Awards last year, because only
on African-American was nominated. However no less of an authority than Denzel
Washington, says that Jesse Jackson overreacted. "I didn't really think th ....
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