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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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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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8 months ago
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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8 months ago
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 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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8 months ago
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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8 months ago
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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8 months ago
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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8 months ago
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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8 months ago
Mr. Jackson became a leader in his fraternity and eventually president of the student body. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson became a leader in his fraternity and president of the student body

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8 months ago
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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8 months ago
Mr. Jackson transferred after his freshman year to what is now North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a historically Black institution in Greensboro. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University after his freshman year

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8 months ago
Mr. Jackson experienced what he later described wryly as “the legendary liberalism of the North.” 0.950

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Simplified: Mr Jackson experienced the legendary liberalism of the North

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8 months ago
Mr. Jackson had never been called the most hurtful racial slur in the South, he said, but he was taunted with it by college students in the North. 0.950

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Simplified: Mr Jackson was taunted with a racial slur by college students in the North

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8 months ago
Vivian Taylor added that Mr. Jackson thought a whole lot of himself right off the bat. 0.950

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Simplified: Vivian Taylor added Mr Jackson thought a whole lot of himself right off the bat

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8 months ago
After graduating from high school in 1959, Mr. Jackson enrolled at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on a football scholarship. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson enrolled at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on a football scholarship after graduating from high school in 1959

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8 months ago
In 2017, he announced that he had Parkinson’s disease, which in its early stages can produce similar effects on bodily movements and speech. 1.000

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Simplified: In 2017 he announced he had Parkinson's disease

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8 months ago
Mr. Jackson picked up the mantle of Dr. King after his assassination in 1968 and ran for president twice, long before Mr. Obama’s election in 2008. 1.000

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Simplified: Mr Jackson picked up mantle of Dr King after assassination in 1968 and ran for president twice

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8 months ago
He was born Jesse Louis Burns on Oct. 8, 1941, in Greenville, S.C. 1.000

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Simplified: He was born Jesse Louis Burns on Oct 8 1941 in Greenville SC

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