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Jackson, Jesse (Louis)，原名Jesse Louis Burns。

美國民權領袖。生於南卡羅來納州格林維爾（greenville），後來改姓養父姓氏。大學時代即投身於美國民權運動。1965年到阿拉巴馬州塞爾馬（Selma）參加金恩（Martin Luther King）領導的示威遊行，接着爲南方基督教領袖會議（Southern Christian Leadership Conference; SCLC）工作。1966年協助創建該會經濟組織「麪包籃行動」（Operation Breadbasket）的芝加哥分支機構，並於1967～1971年擔任該組織的全國總指揮。1968年被任命爲浸信會牧師。1971年建立「聯合羣衆爲人類服務行動」（Operation PUSH）。他是黑人的主要代言人與擁護者，1983年在芝加哥發動選民登記運動，促成華盛頓（Harold Washington）當選該市第一位黑人市長。1984年和1988年兩度進入民主黨初選，成爲第一個競選總統的黑人；1988年得票數有670萬張。1989年移居華盛頓特區，獲選爲該市無給職「州級地位參議員」（statehood senator），負責遊說國會通過州級地位。

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Jackson, Jesse (Louis)

U.S. civil-rights leader. Born in Greenville, S.C., he took his adoptive father's name. He became involved with the civil rights movement as a college student. In 1965 he went to Selma, Ala., to march with Martin Luther King, then worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1966 he helped found the Chicago branch of Operation Breadbasket, the SCLC's economic arm, and was its national director 1967-71. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1968. In 1971 he founded Operation PUSH. A leading spokesman and advocate for blacks, he led a 1983 voter-registration drive in Chicago that helped elect the city's first black mayor, Harold Washington. Jackson became the first black man to run for president by entering the Democratic primaries in 1984 and 1988; he won 6.7 million votes in 1988. In 1989 he moved to Washington, D.C., and was elected the city's unpaid “statehood senator” to lobby Congress for statehood.