Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina and rose to fame during the civil rights movement.

His work spans decades and ranks with the likes of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., including running for the Democratic presidential nomination twice, in 1984 and 1988, as reported by our US partner NBC News.

He added that Jackson began working as an organizer at the Congress of Racial Equality and participated in marches and sit-ins.

He attended North Carolina A&T State University and graduated with a degree in sociology, after which he began to rally student support for King.

He then joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work with King and, as he grew as an organizer, married Jacqueline Brown in 1962. Brown is a survivor. they have five children.

After Dr. King’s assassination, he furthered his vision of black liberation and began running for president in the 1980s.

However, his candidacy in 1984 infuriated some Democrats who considered his ideas too left-wing and argued that he would harm the party.

“The great responsibility we have today is to bring the poor and those close to them back to the forefront of America’s agenda,” Jackson said of the 1984 campaign in an interview with PBS at the time, according to NBC. “This is a dangerous mission, but it’s also a necessary mission.”

His anti-Semitic comments marred his campaign and he later apologized.

In the 1990s, Jackson continued to work from home and helped win the release of several Americans detained around the world.

And in recent decades, Jackson has been an outspoken supporter of former President Barack Obama.

He also criticized incumbent President Donald Trump.

He supported Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential election.

At the time, Sanders said:

“It is one of the honors of my life to be supported by a man who has risked his life to fight for justice for the past 50 years.”