Jesse Jackson: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Jackson’s presidential campaign is discussed in Lucius J. Barker and Ronald W. Walters (eds.), Jesse Jackson’s 1984 Presidential Campaign (1989). A biography of Jackson is Marshall Frady, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (1996). A highly critical biography of Jackson is Kenneth R. Timmerman, Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson (2002).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Cross-references added. Sep 10, 2024
Modified link of Web site: Stanford University - The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Jesse Louis Jackson. May 10, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 15, 2024
Cross-reference added. Jan 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Kansas State University - The Landon Lecture Series - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil rights leader and activist. Nov 07, 2023
Anniversary information added. Oct 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Morgan State University - University Commencement - Jesse Jackson. May 19, 2023
Add new Web site: Black History in America - Biography of Jesse Jackson. Sep 05, 2022
Added information about his health. Mar 22, 2022
Changed “black” to “Black.” Jul 23, 2020
Add new Web site: The HistoryMakers - Biography of Jesse L. Jackson. Jan 28, 2019
Add new Web site: National Park Service - International Civil Rights Walk of Fame - Biography of Jesse Louis Jackson. Jan 28, 2019
Corrected display issue. Oct 12, 2018
Add new Web site: Stanford University - The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Jesse Louis Jackson. Oct 21, 2014
Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Jesse Jackson. Mar 12, 2014
Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - Biography of Jessie Louis Jackson, Sr. Mar 12, 2014
Add new Web site: Jesse Jackson 2012 - Biography, Politics, Religion, and More. Jan 14, 2013
Add new Web site: Jesse Jackson 2012 - Biography, Politics, Religion, and More. Jan 14, 2013
Closed out Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Nov 21, 2012
Replaced photograph. Jan 30, 2012
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Jesse Jackson. Jul 21, 2010
Bibliography revised and updated. Aug 26, 2008
Article revised and updated. Aug 26, 2008
Article revised. Dec 10, 2004
Article revised. Jan 04, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jan 12, 2000
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