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The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Reverend Jackson has been called the “Conscience of the Nation” and “the Great Unifier,” challenging America to be inclusive and to establish just and humane priorities for the benefit of all. He is known for bringing people together on common ground across lines of race, culture, class, gender and belief.

Born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina, Jesse Jackson graduated from the public schools in Greenville and then enrolled in the University of Illinois on a football scholarship. He later transferred to North Carolina A&T State University and graduated in 1964. He began his theological studies at Chicago Theological Seminary but deferred his studies when he began working full-time in the Civil Rights Movement with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was ordained on June 30, 1968 by Rev. Clay Evans and received his earned Master of Divinity degree from Chicago Theological Seminary in 2000.

For his work in human and civil rights and nonviolent social change, Reverend Jackson has received more than 40 honorary doctorate degrees and frequently lectures at major colleges and universities including Howard, Yale, Princeton, Morehouse, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Hampton. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Regents Park College at Oxford University in the UK in November 2007, and received an Honorary Fellowship from Edge Hill University in Liverpool, England. In March 2010, Reverend Jackson was inducted into England’s prestigious Cambridge Union Society. In April 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

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referencedIn [Portrait of Jess Jackson, Healdsburg, Calif.] [picture]. Sonoma County Library
referencedIn Schomer, Howard, 1915-2001. Papers, 1928-2001. Andover-Harvard Theological Library
referencedIn Makled, Husein. Hussein Makled papers photographs series. Bentley Historical Library
referencedIn ILGWU. Gus Tyler papers, 1956-1996 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
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referencedIn Operation PUSH. [Miscellaneous pamphlets, etc.]. Chicago History Museum
referencedIn Hugh Morton Photographs and Films, late 1920s-2006, (bulk 1940s-1990s) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection.
referencedIn García, Herlinda,. Oral history interview with Herlinda Garcia, 1996 [videorecording]. University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library
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referencedIn Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday celebration [videorecording], 1987 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Papers of Julian Bond 1897-2006 University of Virginia. Small Special Collections Library
referencedIn Rainbow Coalition of Vermont. Rainbow Coalition of Vermont records, 1984-1991. Vermont Historical Society
referencedIn Leslie Cagan Papers, 1966-2009 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Dominic J. Badolato Papers, undated, 1918-2003 Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
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referencedIn October 1995 (#4063) Gerald R. Ford Library
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referencedIn Papers of Florynce Kennedy, (inclusive), (bulk), 1915-2004, 1947-1993 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Schlitz Brewing Company and Operation PUSH contract signing photographs, undated. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
referencedIn Records of the Office of the Staff Secretary. 1976 - 1981. Presidential Files. 1977 - 1981. 8/9/79 Jimmy Carter Library
referencedIn Records of the Office of Education. 1870 - 1980. Office Files National Archives at College Park
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referencedIn Anaya, Toney. Toney Anaya papers, 1965-2005. University of New Mexico-Main Campus
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referencedIn Frances Fox Piven Papers MS 238., 1957 - 2011 [ongoing] Sophia Smith Collection
referencedIn Roots of the Rainbow Exhibit Collection, 1943-1988 (bulk, late 1960s-1988). University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library
creatorOf Jackson, Jesse L. [Personal papers of Jesse L. Jackson] University of Kansas Archives / MSS / Rare Books, Kenneth Spencer Research Library
referencedIn Globalvision, Inc. South Africa Now collection, 1978-1994 (inclusive), 1988-1991 (bulk). Yale University Library
referencedIn Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Presidential Election Study. Presidential Election of 1988 Study Collection, 1984-1992. University of Texas Libraries
referencedIn David-Friedman, Ellen. Ellen David Friedman papers, 1980-1990. Vermont Historical Society
referencedIn San Francisco Rainbow Coalition. San Francisco Rainbow Coalition records, 1984-1989. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn ABC PROFILES: DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT National Archives at College Park
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referencedIn Pryor, Janis A. Papers of Janis A. Pryor, 1940-1995. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Ellison, Ralph. Letter to Bert Krantz, 1990 February 23. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Political Newspapers Collection, 1953-1994, bulk 1969-1992 California State University, Dominguez Hills Archives and Special Collections
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referencedIn Seattle (Wash.). Mayor. Mayor Norman Rice photographs, 1990-1997. Seattle Municipal Archives
referencedIn Cook, Celestine Shannon Strode, 1924-1985. Papers. Tulane University, Amistad Research Center
referencedIn Sellers, Cleveland, 1944-. Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. papers, 1934-2003 (bulk 1960-1980). College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library
referencedIn Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005. Rosa L. Parks papers, 1955-1976. Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
referencedIn Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate (1984 : Dartmouth College). Records, 1984. Dartmouth College Library
referencedIn Martin Luther King, Jr., birthday celebration : video recording, 1987. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Harvard Law School Forums Records Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
referencedIn Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981. Howard Thurman collection, 1924-1981 (bulk 1952-1967). Boston University. School of Medicine
referencedIn Dinkins, David N. David Dinkins papers, 1941-2001 [Bulk Dates: 1985-1993]. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
referencedIn Rabinowitz, Joni. Joni Rabinowitz papers, 1961-2008. University of Pittsburgh
referencedIn Records of the Office of the Staff Secretary. 1976 - 1981. Presidential Files. 1977 - 1981. 7/25/78 Jimmy Carter Library
creatorOf NONMUSIC RECORDING (COLLECTION) Audio materials, 1956-1977 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Audio materials, 1956-1977 [sound recording]. Library of Congress
referencedIn Records of the Office of the Staff Secretary. 1976 - 1981. Presidential Files. 1977 - 1981. 8/17/79 [1] Jimmy Carter Library
referencedIn North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Jesse Jackson collection, 1950-1964. North Carolina A&T State University, F.D. Bluford Library, Ferdinand Douglass Bluford Library
referencedIn Woodard, Bertha 1916-. Speech to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, Sept. 11, 1983. University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
referencedIn Toney Anaya Papers, 1965-2005 The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for SouthwestResearch
referencedIn Artists for Jackson : PAD/D pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn Septima P. Clark papers, ca. 1910-ca. 1990. Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
referencedIn Records of the Office of the Staff Secretary. 1976 - 1981. Presidential Files. 1977 - 1981. 7/25/78 Jimmy Carter Library
referencedIn September 1994 (#4050) Gerald R. Ford Library
referencedIn Grimsley, Edward. Papers of Edward Grimsley,1961-1997. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn Davis, Thulani. Thulani Davis collection, 1967-1997. Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
referencedIn Vigil, Maurilio E., 1941-. The Hispanic vote and the Jackson candidacy / by Maurilio E. Vigil. New Mexico Highlands University, Donnelly Library
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