Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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Jesse Jackson
American minister, activist and politician
United States · 1941–2026
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The Rev Jesse Jackson, 70, was born in South Carolina. He is one of America's foremost religious and political figures, having worked in the civil-rights movement with Martin Luther King in the mid-60s and running for the US presidency in 1984 and 1988. In 1991 he was elected senator of Washington DC. He is founder and president of the Rainbow Push Coalition.
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In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
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