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Entitled: "Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment." Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He graduated with a BS in sociology in 1964, then attended the Chicago Theological Seminary on a scholarship. He dropped out in 1966, three classes short of earning his master's degree, to focus full-time on the civil rights movement. In 1965, he participated in the Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. Impressed by Jackson's drive and organizational abilities, Martin Luther King Jr. soon began giving Jackson a role in the SCLC. Jackson is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. People United to Save Humanity (Operation PUSH) began operations in 1971. At its inception, Jackson planned to orient Operation PUSH toward politics and to pressure politicians to work to improve economic opportunities for blacks and poor people of all races. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. Jackson has commended Obama's 2012 decision to support gay marriage and has compared the fight for same-sex marriage to fight against slavery and the anti-miscegenation laws that once prevented interracial marriage. Photographed by Thomas J. O'Halloran January 15, 1975.
