What is Jesse Jackson?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Jesse Jackson |image = Reverend Jesse Jackson speaking at the UN crop.jpg |office = [[Shadow congressperson|United States Shadow Senator]]<br>from the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]] |term_start = January 3, 1991 |term_end = January 3, 1997 |predecessor = Seat established |successor = [[Paul Strauss]] |birth_name=Jesse Louis Burns |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|10|8}} |birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]], [[South Carolina]], [[United States|U.S.]]}} |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] |spouse = {{marriage|Jacqueline Brown|1962}} |residence = [[Washington, D.C.]]<br>[[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] |children = [[Santita Jackson|Santita]]<br>[[Jesse Jackson Jr.|Jesse]]<br>[[Jonathan Jackson (activist)|Jonathan]]<br>Yusef DuBois<br>Jacqueline Lavinia<br>Ashley Laverne {{small|(with [[Karin Stanford]])}} |alma_mater = [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]]<br>[[North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University]]<br>[[Chicago Theological Seminary]] }} '''Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.''' (born October 8, 1941) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Clergy|church minister]], [[activist]] and [[politician]].<ref name=Bio>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/jesse-jackson-9351181 |title=Jesse Jackson Biography |author= |website= |publisher=Bio/A&E Television Networks, LLC |accessdate=20 February 2016}}</ref> Jackson was born Jesse Louis Burns, in [[Greenville, South Carolina]].<ref name=History>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jesse-jackson |title=Jesse Jackson |author= |website= |publisher=History/A&E Television Networks, LLC |accessdate=20 February 2016}}</ref> His mother, Helen Burns, was 16 years old at the time he was born.<ref name=History/> She never married his father, Noah Louis Robinson.<ref name=History/> When Jackson was two, his mother married Charles Jackson. Jesse was raised by his gran