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1941- . US Democrat politician, campaigner
for minority rights. He contested his party's
1984 and 1988 presidential nominations in an
effort to increase voter registration and to
put black issues on the national agenda. He
is a notable public speaker. Born in North
Carolina and educated in Chicago, Jackson
emerged as a powerful Baptist preacher and
black activist politician, working first with
the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King,
then on building the political machine that
gave Chicago a black mayor 1983. He sought to
construct what he called a rainbow coalition
of ethnic-minority and socially deprived
groups. He took the lead in successfully
campaigning for US disinvestment in South
Africa 1986.