Brandons blog: Jesse Jackson

For my blog today I'am going to talk about Black History Month. For my blog I'm tell you about Jesse Jackson. I'm going to tell you who he was and what he did that was important to Black History Month.

Jesse Jackson was born in 1941 Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated in a high school called sterling high school. He has got a football degree in the university of Illinois and then he transferred to the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro. He became active in sit ins. Sit ins is when he protested about being unable to eat or drink there.

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In 1965 Jesse Jackson met Martin Luther King Jr. Jesse Jackson met him at the Selma March a effort to register black voters. In 1962 Jesse Jackson was a leader of the Chicago branch of operation breadbasket. That program tried to give opportunities of jobs to blacks. He was very good leading the Chicago branch of operation breadbasket.

In 1979 he decided to take place in the civil rights movement. He went to Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria to make peace. Later he created peace in the middle east. Later in 1984 he ran for President. He did not make it but he had 450 delegates and had way more than Shirley Chisholm. He believed that the government should spend more money on people instead of weapons for war. In 1988 he ran for president again and did way better. He had gotten 1200 votes but he did not get chosen for president.