Jesse Jackson collection, 1950-1964.

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Jesse Jackson collection, 1950-1964.

Materials include photographs, news clippings, newspapers, and buttons relating to Jesse Louis Jackson, civil rights leader, alumni of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

2 linear ft.

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Jackson, Jesse, 1941-

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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 h...

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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Established Mar. 9, 1891 as Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race; name changed by act of North Carolina Legislature to Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina in 1915; later known as Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina; 1967 became a regional university and named North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; located in Greensboro, N.C. From the description of Jesse Jackson collection, 1950-1964. (North Carolina A&a...