Long afterward, Jackson would strangely insist, "King didn ... the things that Jesse wanted and needed more than anything in the world was the support and approval of Martin Luther King and ...

And Jesse Jackson gave this rousing speech -- a ... And it was a marvelous thing. Martin Luther King's letter from the Birmingham jail had come out a little while before Jesse gave that speech.

Both organizations were founded by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement. Attendees at the breakfast included Chicago ...

Jesse Louis Jackson was born Oct. 8 ... he cloned himself out of Martin Luther King.” In 1984, Jackson turned to politics. He became the second African American to run for the nation’s ...

Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost ... Labeled "sacred ground" by Jesse Jackson and other King acolytes, the motel was partially preserved and incorporated into the museum, which opened ...

Jesse Jackson, Dorothy Cotton and more. Watch on Max The impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s activism is still reverberating through American politics and culture to this day, an enduring ...

On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what was to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, “I’ve been to the ...