""Bloody Sunday.""
""a sense of the oppression and the persecution that he wanted to fight.""
""Southernness has more to do with attitude than latitude.""
""I keep thinking about the odds,""
Jesse Louis Jackson was born Oct. 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, and became a national civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate. Segregated Jim Crow conditions in his youth — separate water fountains, bathrooms, swimming pools and lunch counters — shaped his outlook and commitment to fighting racial oppression. He attended the all-Black Sterling High School, where he was a star quarterback and class president. He lived in Chicago for most of his adult life but retained a Southern identity that informed his activism. He crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a wheelchair on March 9, 2025, and died Feb. 17, 2026, at age 84.
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