Jesse Louis Jackson

Jackson graduated from Sterling High School and received a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. During his first year, he became displeased with the treatment on the university grounds and on the field. He was told that because he was a black he could not expect to play quarterback. Less than a year later, Jesse decided to finish his college years in the south, then transfer to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in North Carolina. Jackson initially became involved in the Civil Rights movement when he was a student at North Carolina A&T.

While Jesse was originally named Jesse Louis Burns, at age fifteen he took on the name of his stepfather, Charles Jackson, who had adopted him earlier. Jesse attended Sterling High School in South Carolina, where he “was elected president of his class, the honor society, and the student council, was named state officer of the Future Teachers of America, finished tenth in his class, and lettered in football, basketball, and baseball (Ryan, encyclopedia.com). Jesse’s athletic success in high school earned him a football scholarship to the University of Illinois, which he left South Carolina to attend in 1959. Then, during his freshmen year there, Jesse became displeased with football and the way he was treated on campus, and transferred to the “predominantly black Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina in Greensboro and received a B.A. in sociology in 1964” (Ency... ... middle of paper ... ...r. Despite these controversies, Jesse Jackson’s legacy will remain positive, and he will be remembered as a man who dedicated his life to serving all those who have been suffering in the United States.

He went to segregated middle schools in Georgia and then went on to high school. He was excelling exceedingly well, so they let him skip his ninth and twelfth grade school years. Astonishingly, he graduated at the age of fifteen. He went on to a prestigious African-American college called Morehouse College, which his father and grandfather attended and graduated from (Nobel Foundation). King graduated with a B.A.

The educator's monument on its campus shows him lifting a symbolic veil from the head of a freed slave. Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Va. His mother, Jane Burroughs, was a plantation cook. His father was an unknown white man. As a child, Booker swept yards and brought water to slaves working in the fields. Freed after the American Civil War, he went with his mother to Malden, W. Va., to join Washington Ferguson, whom she had married during the war.

Martin went to public schools in Atlanta and he did so well in school he skipped the 9th and 12th grades, graduating high school at only 15 years old. He went on to be accepted into Morehouse College as an early admission student. He graduated at 19 with a degree in Sociology in 1948. (Williams) With his father's guidance and his admiration for Benjamin E. Mays, King decided to become a minister. On February 25, 1948 he was ordained a Baptist minister.

His grandfather served from 1914 to 1931. After his grandfather died, he served as the co-pastor. Martin attended segregated schools in Georgia. He surprisingly graduated high school at age 15. He went to Morehouse College, a Negro institution of Atlanta.

He was from a large family, being the second youngest of 8 children, with one brother and six sisters. His father, Robert was a salesman and supervisor of agents for a black-owned insurance company. His mother Beulah (may also be Eunice depending on the source), worked as a maid. His grandparents, James and Agnes Wilder were slaves making him the grandson of slaves. His family lived in a poor and segregated neighborhood.

Fighting for Equality: Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson was born in 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. Born to Helen Burns, an unwed teenaged mother - who was herself the child of an unwed teenaged mother; Jackson's childhood was marked by feelings of isolation and difference. He was teased for not having a father by school mates and neighbors. His biological father, married, Noah Robinson, was one of Greenville's most prosperous black citizens, while Jackson, along with his mother and grandmother, lived in relative poverty. His mother and grandmother were great support.

The young girl then moved to Vicksburg to live with her sister Louvinia and to work as a housemaid. She worked hard from the time she was very young, was extremely poor, and had little opportunity to get an education. In order to escape the terrible environment created by Louvinia's husband, Sarah married Moses McWilliams when she was only fourteen years old. At eighteen she gave birth to a daughter she named Lelia. Two years later her husband died.

Eatonville is a small all black community. They moved to Eatonville when her dad became a preacher and then the mayor. Hurston mother died when she was fourteen Lucy Zora mother died. Hurston dad john had moved on and she began to living with her new step mother Mattie Mogue. Hurston and her step mother were constantly fighting and she decided she had to leave.