Jesse Jackson's Activism And The Civil Rights Movement

Jacob Stitt
Reinholt
Government Period 2
23 January 2023
2nd Quarter Summative
Jesse Jackson’s Activism
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr is a civil rights activist from South Carolina. He is best known for his work as a leader in the Civil rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, during which he played a key role in the advancement of civil rights for African Americans and other minorities.
In the 1960s, Jackson became involved in the civil rights movement and worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He served as an organizer for the SCLC and helped to coordinate the famous March on Washington in 1963. After King's assassination in 1968, Jackson became a leader in his own right and founded the

One of the most significant achievements of the movement was the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was another major achievement, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting and helped to ensure that African Americans had equal access to the ballot box. Additionally, the Civil Rights Movement led to the desegregation of public schools and other institutions, as well as the end of legal segregation in the South. The movement also helped to bring about the end of Jim Crow laws and the dismantling of the system of racial discrimination that had been in place for decades (NPS 2016). The Civil Rights Movement also helped to change the national conversation around race and discrimination in the United States, paving the way for further progress in the decades that followed (PBS

The movement has helped to raise awareness of LGBT issues and has pushed for legal and social changes that have improved the lives of millions of LGBT individuals. Some of the major achievements include: the legalization of same-sex marriage in every state; the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes in anti-discrimination laws; the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in the US military which prohibited openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals from serving in the military; and the increasing visibility and acceptance of transgender individuals in society (Study 2010). The movement has played a crucial role in the fight for healthcare and workplace discrimination protections, and for the rights of intersex