Jesse Jackson was born as Jesse Louis Burns in a poor household in Greenville, South Carolina. (born October 8, 1941)

He married Jacqueline Lavinia Brown on December 31, 1962. After attending the University of Illinois and North Carolina A&T University, he studied divinity at the Chicago Theological Seminary (although he did not finish his divinity studies), and began to organize in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under the influence of Martin Luther King, Jr..

He claims to have been at King´s side in Memphis when King was assassinated, April 4, 1968, though critics such as Kenneth Timmerman have contended that Jackson embellished his account.

He was ordained as a Baptist minister later that year.

There is no evidence that Blacks are not equally drawn to Luciferian or Satanic activities in Masonry or other occult groups.

Of the 250, 000 Black American Masons, the Internet list the Reverend Andrew Young, former Mayor of Atlanta and U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations; former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall; Ebony and Jet publisher John A. Johnson; W. E. B. DuBois, intellectual; Carl Stokes, first Black elected mayor of a U. S. city (Cleveland); Julian Bond, civil-rights-era activist; educator Booker T. Washington, Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, D.C.; Scottie Pippen, basketball star, and Jesse Jackson, a Christian preacher and two-time Democratic presidential candidate.

Most of the distinguished Freemasons still living are members of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, and none of them would be allowed to visit most White lodges without risking punishment. A footnote to the "list of Famous Freemasons" on the Internet said: The most perplexing and discouraging thing on the above list is to see all of the Black Americans who foolishly have joined Freemasonry. Even if they let Jesse Jackson join a Lodge other than the discriminating Prince Hall Lodge, how can Jesse imagine the old Anglo-Saxon bigotry of ancient Freemasonry has changed? The Masons are simply using Jesse Jackson as window dressing. There has NEVER been a more tragic case of Uncle Tom-ism than this one!