Jonathan Jackson (activist)
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Jonathan Lester Jackson January 7, 1966 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Professor, businessman, social justice advocate |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Marilyn Richards |
| Children | Jonathan T. Jackson, Leah Jackson, Noah Jackson |
| Parent(s) | Jesse Jackson, Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson |
| Relatives | Santita Jackson (sister), Jesse Jackson, Jr. (brother) |
Jonathan Luther Jackson (born January 7, 1966) is an American business professor, entrepreneur and social justice advocate. He is the national spokesman for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and a partner in a Chicago-based beer distributorship, River North Sales and Service, LLC.
Jackson was born Jonathan Luther Jackson in Chicago, Illinois, to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a noted civil rights activist and Baptist minister, and Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson. His godfather was the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. from which Jackson gets his middle name from. The middle child of his parents' five children, Jackson's siblings are Santita Jackson and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., his elders, and Yusef, Jacqueline Jackson and Ashley, his younger siblings.
Jackson attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, where he was a student-athlete.
He attended his parents' alma mater, North Carolina A & T University in Greensboro, North Carolina, to study business. He is a graduate of the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Jackson married Marilyn Ann Richards of Brooklyn in 1995. Jonathan and Marilyn Jackson's children include Jonathan T. Jackson, Leah Jackson, and Noah Jackson.
Born into a family steeped in human rights activism, Jackson has traveled the world as an aide de camp to his father. He traveled to Syria in 1983, when the Rev. Jackson negotiated with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad to release captured American pilot Navy Lt. Robert Goodman. He met Fidel Castro in 1984, when his father negotiated the release of twenty-two Americans being held in Cuba. He was also with his father in August 2005, when the Rev. Jackson traveled to Venezuela to meet Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. This followed controversial remarks by televangelist Pat Robertson where he implied Chávez should be assassinated. Jackson condemned Robertson's remarks as immoral.
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