Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Reverend Jesse Jackson is a nationally recognized civil rights leader whose activism helped shape modern political engagement in California and across the United States. A close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson founded the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and twice ran for President, building multiracial political coalitions that energized voters nationwide. His campaigns significantly mobilized California’s diverse electorate and expanded the national conversation on economic justice, voting rights, and inclusion.