What Was Jesse Jackson Net Worth

Jesse Jackson net worth
Jesse Louis Burns, Sr. was born on the 8th October 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina USA. He is a Baptist minister and politician. He earned his fame through his civil rights activism and his presidential candidacy in 1984 and 1988. He had also been a shadow U.S Senator for the District of Columbia in a period from 1991 to 1997.

Have you ever wondered how rich Jesse Jackson is? According to sources it is estimated that Jesse Jackson?s total net worth is $10 million, an amount earned through his political involvement and his organization ?Rainbow\Push. Throughout the years he has become the national spokesman of African-American which peaked in 2000, when he was awarded with Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Jesse Jackson

He also excelled in various sports, which earned him a scholarship, on the University of Illinois, in football. However he was transferred to the North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro. His career as the civil right activist began while he was a student. He was elected to be student body president and fought against the segregation laws which were represented in those times in theatre, libraries and restaurants. He graduated with a degree in psychology and then went on the Theological seminary in Chicago. Although, he dropped out before earning his master degree, he was ordained as a Minister in 1968. The reason he dropped out from Theology is that he wanted to pursue his career as a civil rights activist further. He started working with Martin Luther King, and earned a name for himself as an activist for African-Americans. In 1971 he started his own organization ?People United to Save Humanity? (PUSH). His involvement in civil rights activism slowly started to steer towards the politics, which culminated in 1984 with a candidacy for a President of the United States of America and with Jackson`s having another organization, ?Rainbow Coalition? which had a primary role to act in politics. However his candidacy was not successful. Jackson repeated candidacy in 1988, but the result was the same as

Jackson was able to act on the International scale; in 1983 he traveled to Syria to secure the liberation of a captured America pilot. Jackson also had influence in Iraq, more precisely, on the Gulf War; in 1997 he pleaded to Saddam Hussein for the release of the foreign nationalists, which were regarded as the ?human shield?.
His influence extended also through the 2000s. In 2003 he was an advocate against the Invasion of Iraq, attending the Hyde Park demonstrations and speaking in front of, as it was later estimated, over a million people. His fame and net worth grew over the years, increasing little by little with his every successful venture.
Overall, his career is quite successful, changing others people minds from his beginning, Jackson earned several awards for his influence, including??Jefferson Award or Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantage? in 1979, ?American Whig-Cliosophic Society`s James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service? in 1991, In 2008, Jackson was presented with an Honorary Fellowship from?Edge Hill University, and many others, which greatly influenced on his total net