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Definition of Jesse Jackson
1. Noun. United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941).
Generic synonyms: Civil Rights Activist, Civil Rights Leader, Civil Rights Worker, Pol, Political Leader, Politician, Politico
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jesse Jackson
Literary usage of Jesse Jackson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Iraq Speaks: Documents on the Gulf Crisis (1993)
"... Interview with Saddam Hussein by Jesse Jackson in Baghdad on 31 August
1990 [Hussein] Today we are ..."
2. The Ohio Nisi Prius Reports by Ohio Courts (1919)
"It appears from the evidence that Jesse Jackson, the defendants' decedent, was
married to a granddaughter of Frederick Yount and after such marriage resided ..."
3. Hostile to Democracy: The Movement System and Political Repression in Uganda by Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"The press briefing was addressed by Jesse Jackson, Susan Rice, ... Jesse Jackson
strongly defended Uganda's movement system, arguing that it had been ..."
4. Negotiation: Methodology and Training by L. J. Nieuwmeijer (1992)
"If preliminary surveys had shown that Jesse Jackson would not get enough black
Americans to register so that he could be a contender in his own right, ..."
5. A History of the Parish of Leyton, Essex by John Kennedy (1894)
"Mrs. Innes then sold her house to Mr. Jesse Jackson, who now owns and occupies it.
Moyer At the bottom of Hainault Road (by some old House. inhabitants ..."