Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader who ran for president twice, dies at 84


Jackson was born Jesse Louis Burns on Oct. 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, to Helen Burns, a 16-year-old high school student, and her 33-year-old married neighbor, Noah Robinson. When he was about a year old, his mother married Charles Henry Jackson, a post office maintenance worker who later adopted him.



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