Jesse Jackson

Baptist minister Reverend Jesse Jackson became a civil rights activist in the 1960s. He is noted for powerful oratory and rhetoric and coined "I am somebody".

Picture: Jesse Jackson, Credit: Getty Images

09 February 1995

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