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Later that night, Mr. Jackson hurried back to Chicago, parts of which were in flames in the unrest that followed the assassination. 0.950

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Simplified: Mr Jackson hurried back to Chicago after the assassination

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The next morning, he appeared on the “Today” show wearing the olive turtleneck sweater, blotted with blood, that he had worn the day before in Memphis. 0.950

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Simplified: He appeared on the Today show wearing the olive turtleneck sweater blotted with blood

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At a memorial convocation of the Chicago City Council that day, he declared, “I come here with a heavy heart because on my chest is the stain of blood from Dr. King’s head.” 0.950

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Simplified: He declared I come here with a heavy heart because on my chest is the stain of blood from Dr King’s head at a memorial convocation of the Chicago City...

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He was one of several aides who rushed toward Dr. King after he was shot. 0.950

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Simplified: He rushed toward Dr King after he was shot

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Dr. King became an intellectual and a spiritual model for Mr. Jackson, as well as a father figure. 1.000

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Simplified: Dr King became an intellectual and spiritual model for Mr Jackson

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Dr. King was outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel bantering with S.C.L.C. colleagues in the parking lot below before going out to dinner when a single rifle shot shattered the moment. 1.000

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Simplified: Dr King was outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel when a single rifle shot shattered the moment

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Dr. King went to Memphis to show support for striking garbage workers. 1.000

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Simplified: Dr King went to Memphis to show support for striking garbage workers

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Six months before graduating, he quit his seminary studies to plunge into the civil rights movement full time. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson quit his seminary studies to plunge into the civil rights movement full time six months before graduating

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Mr. Jackson was chosen to head the Chicago chapter of the S.C.L.C.’s Operation Breadbasket, a national economic development campaign whose goal was to use boycotts as a way to pressure white businesse... 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson was chosen to head the Chicago chapter of the SCLC’s Operation Breadbasket

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In March 1965, Mr. Jackson climbed atop a table in the seminary’s cafeteria and challenged other students to join him on a trip there. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson challenged other students to join him on a trip to Selma in March 1965

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Mr. Jackson offered his services to members of Dr. King’s inner circle in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, irking a few of them by acting as if he were in a position of authority. 0.950

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Simplified: Mr Jackson offered his services to members of Dr King’s inner circle in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Six months after Selma, while still pursuing his studies, Mr. Jackson became, at 24, the youngest S.C.L.C. staff member. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson became the youngest SCLC staff member at 24 six months after Selma

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About 20 students and a third of the faculty took him up on the call, and they all headed South. 1.000

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Simplified: About 20 students and a third of the faculty headed South

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By 1967, he was gaining a national reputation as he promoted the program. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson was gaining a national reputation by 1967

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In what seems, in retrospect, both a homage to Dr. King and a gesture of either characteristic ambition or characteristic egotism, while in jail for a day Mr. Jackson sketched out a one-page “Letter F... 0.950

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Simplified: Mr Jackson sketched out a one-page Letter From a Greensboro Jail while in jail for a day

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Their first child was born, a daughter they named Santita. 1.000

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Simplified: Their first child was born a daughter named Santita

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Four more children followed over the next 12 years. 1.000

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Simplified: Four more children followed over the next 12 years

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In June 1963, Mr. Jackson led a march that drew hundreds of students downtown and was arrested the next day, turning the occasion into something of a political coming out party. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson led a march that drew hundreds of students downtown and was arrested the next day in June 1963

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In February 1960, four students from the agricultural college had sat down at the segregated lunch counter of the Woolworth’s store in downtown Greensboro. 1.000

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Simplified: Four students sat down at the segregated lunch counter of the Woolworth’s store in downtown Greensboro in February 1960

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Mr. Jackson fell in love with a student named Jacqueline Lavinia Brown, known as Jackie. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson fell in love with Jacqueline Lavinia Brown known as Jackie

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