Jesse+Jackson

=MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT COPY AND PASTING YOUR STUFF!!!= =USE THE TEMPLATE SO I CAN GRADE IT EASIER!!= = = = Name of individual (1 pt) Jesse Jackson=

When/where they lived (2 pts) (born October 8, 1941) Greenville, South Carolina
== Early life (3-4 sentences) (4 pts) Jackson attended Sterling High School, a segregated high school in Greenville, where he was a student-athlete. Upon graduating in 1959, he rejected a contract from a professional baseball team so that he could attend the racially integrated University of Illinois on a football scholarship.[2== == What they did to impact the Civil Rights Movement (4-5 sentences) (9 pts) he participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches organized by James Bevel, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]], and other civil rights leaders in Alabama.In 1966, King and Bevel selected Jackson to be head of the SCLC’s Operation Breadbasket]] in Chicago, and SCLC promoted him to be the national director in 1967.Jackson has been known for commanding public attention since he first started working for King in 1966.==

On a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), how important do you think this person was to the movement? (Explain your reasoning in 4-5 sentences) (9 pts)

Id say he was a 8 of help for MLK his role as an **important** and effective organizer to the mainstream.His primary goal for this attention has been to give blacks a sense of self-worth

WHAT HAS HE DONE LATELY? DOES HE STILL FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS? == Three Images (3 pts)    Sources (2 pts) I USED WIKIPEDIA AND GOOGLE IMAGES   ==