A CHARGE TO KEEP: The Autobiography of the Reverend Jesse Jackson

by Jesse Jackson

235 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as "shadow senator" for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son.