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

About 20 students and a third of the faculty headed South

Their first child was born a daughter named Santita

Four more children followed over the next 12 years

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

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

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

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

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

Mr Jackson experienced the legendary liberalism of the North

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

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

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

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

Vivian Taylor told Marshall Frady that Mr Jackson was a high school English teacher in Greenville

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

In 2017 he announced he had Parkinson's disease

Leroy Greggs told Mr Frady Mr Jackson could talk a hole through a billy goat

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

His family confirmed his death in a statement