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Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; October 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr.
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and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, he became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and an ardent advocate and early supporter of LGBTQ rights in the United States. From 1991 to 1997, he served as a shadow delegate and shadow senator for the District of Columbia. whose journey began on in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson began his activism in the 1960s and founded the organizations that later merged to form the Rainbow5 of a human being in the U.S. Constitution, to facing anti-miscegenation laws that prevented blacks from marrying whites. We cannot not sit idly by while Prop. 8 seeks to target gays and lesbians for a disfavored legal status, as America’s newest "second-class citizens." Our legal scholars have cited fourteen times where the Supreme Court has stated that marriage is a well-known fundamental right of all individuals.
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