Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him

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by Gibbs Knotts, Christopher A. Cooper, The Conversation

February 17, 2026

Jackson biographer David Masciotra said the South gave Jackson “a sense of the oppression and the persecution that he wanted to fight.”

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Originally published on Fortune on 2/17/2026