1. Topic: Jesse Jackson as a Civil Rights Activist 2. Introduction
Jesse Jackson is a politician, Baptist Church minister and a civil rights leader in America.
He was born in 1941, and he learned about segregation when he was young. Jackson and his mother would sit at the rear of the bus, and their elementary school did not have some amenities which the town’s elementary school for whites had. 3. His Civil Rights Activities
He started his civil rights activities when he was an undergraduate.
He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965.
During the 1980s Jackson became the national spokesman for African-Americans.
4. His Relevance as an advocate for black self-help
In 1971 he founded Operation PUSH, People United to Save Humanity.
He used this organization to support for black self-help which also served as his political pulpit. He also founded the ...