"Photos and videos from that era show Black people being hosed down by police officers, attacked by dogs, humiliated, beaten, bloody and facedown on concrete streets. Jesse Jackson was there. Black people were jailed for trying to integrate "whites-only" establishments, for attempting to vote and for sitting with dignity in the front of city buses. Jesse Jackson was there. In fact, he was repeatedly jailed for civil rights protests throughout the 1960s."
"Time and time again throughout adulthood, Jackson was called to scenes all across America where racial injustice had occurred. Too often, Black children, women and men had been murdered. Too many were wrongly convicted of crimes and subjected to cruel circumstances in which they were treated as less than human. Jesse Jackson was there. He saw and experienced this all. And yet, he famously insisted that all Americans, especially Black citizens, "keep hope alive.""
"Black people were jailed for trying to integrate "whites-only" establishments, for attempting to vote and for sitting with dignity in the front of city buses. Jesse Jackson was there. In fact, he was repeatedly jailed for civil rights protests throughout the 1960s. The first time was when he was an 18-year-old college freshman; he and seven other Black teens were arrested and jailed for reading books at a whites-only public library in Greenville, S.C., Jackson's birthplace."
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. was present at major civil-rights events, including the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis in 1968. He witnessed Black people being hosed, attacked by dogs, humiliated, beaten, bloody and facedown on streets. He was repeatedly jailed for attempts to integrate whites-only establishments, to vote and to sit with dignity on buses, beginning with an arrest at age 18 for reading in a segregated public library. He responded to racial injustices across America, including murders and wrongful convictions. He continually urged Americans, particularly Black citizens, to "keep hope alive." He died at age 84.
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