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Noun: Jesse Louis Jackson
  1. United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
    - Jackson, Jesse Jackson

Type of: civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, pol [N. Amer, informal], political leader, politician, politico [informal], pollie [Austral, informal], polly [Austral, informal]

Encyclopedia: Jesse Louis Jackson, Junior