Jesse Louis Jackson
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	 is one of America's foremost political figures.  Over the past three decades he has played a major role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice.  Jackson has been called the "conscience of the nation" and "the great uni ....          
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....  Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo.  There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world.  After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965.  Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr.  King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago.
In 1971 Rev. Jesse L.  ....          
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