제시 잭슨

소개

제시 잭슨(Jesse Jackson, 1941년 10월 8일 ~ 2026년 2월 17일)는 미국의 침례교 목사이며 민권운동의 지도자이자 민주당의 정치인이다.

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.