Jesse Jackson came from humble beginnings, says The NY Times.

Jesse Jackson came from humble beginnings, says The NY Times. The civil rights campaigner, who died this week aged 84, was born in the poor town of Greenville, South Carolina to a 16-year-old schoolgirl and her 33-year-old married neighbour. Jesse was sent to live with his maternal grandmother in a tiny house around the corner. Rejected by his father “People ask, ‘Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?’” he said in 1984. “They’d never seen the house I’m running from.”