Had a favorable song written about him, "Jesse Jackson," by Kris Kristofferson,
recorded on the 1976 album, "Third World Warrior.".
Jackson and Ralph Abernathy were both waiting at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis for Martin Luther King the very day he was assassinated, April 4, 1968. The friends had planned to have dinner together that evening.
Rainbow Push Coalition president and founder.
Has close personal ties to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and has spoken
positively of Castro in speeches given in the Communist nation.