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Jesse Jackson’s Childhood and Education
Jesse Louis Burns was born October 8, , in Greensville, South Carolina. His mother, Helen Burns, was 16; his father, Noah Louis Robinson, was a former professional boxer and a married man. When Jesse was 2, Helen married Charles Jackson.
Jesse lived with his grandmother Matilda until he was Jesse then returned to Charles Jackson’s house and in was adopted by his stepfather.
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Jesse Jackson was the third African-American candidate for president from a major political party. Shirley Chisholm had sought the Democratic nomination in , and Frederick Douglass received a single roll call vote at the Republican National Convention.
At Greenville’s Sterling High School, Jesse Jackson graduated with offers for a minor league baseball contract and a Big Ten football scholarship.
He spent a year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before transferring to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, wher