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My name is Jesse Jackson I was born born October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. The person I looked up to the most was my biological father, Noah Louis Robinson who was a professional boxer and a well-known figure in the black community.
Blacks in the back!
Growing up eveything was segragated between whites and people with color. So I was taught to go to the back of the bus and use separate water fountains.
In 1956 I attended the racially segregated Sterling High School in Greenville, where he I elected student class president, finished tenth in my class, and earned letters in baseball, football, and basketball
upon graduating from high school in 1959, I joined in on a local civil rights protests against segregated libraries, theaters, and restaurants. I would then drop out of school three classes short of earning his master's degree, to focus full-time on the civil rights movements.
In 1965 I participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches alnogside Martin Luther King Jr and other civil rights leaders in Alabama .
In 1966 King selected me to lead the Chicago branch of the SCLC's economic arm, Operation Breadbasket. I was then promoted to national director in 1967. As the national director I started many massive boycotts by encouraging people of color not buy from white businesses but to purchase goods and services from black-owned firms in hope that white bussnies would hire people of color.

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