# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesse-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:59:40.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesse-jackson"
name: "Jesse Jackson"
slug: "jesse-jackson"
description: "Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, he became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and an ardent advocate and early supporter of LGBTQ rights in the United States. From 1991 to 1997, he served as a shadow United States senator for the District of Columbia."
tagline: "American Baptist minister, activist, civil rights leader, politician, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition (1941–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jesse_Jackson_For_President_Crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941-10-08"
deathDate: "2026-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.04768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "RevJJackson"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413666/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump