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Tracy Grant
Tracy Grant is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She previously served as editor in chief, the first woman to hold that title.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Morgan State University - University Commencement - Jesse Jackson. | Jul 02, 2026 | ||
| Updated with location of his death. | Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Changed verb tense. | Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Updated with his death. | Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| Media updated. | Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Added a Top Questions section. | Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Jesse Jackson to retire as head of civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH. | May 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN - Jesse Jackson Fast Facts. | Mar 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - How Jesse Jackson paved way for Barack Obama - and helped change US. | Feb 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: South Carolina Encyclopedia - Jesse Louis Jackson. | Dec 09, 2024 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Jan 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kansas State University - The Landon Lecture Series - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil rights leader and activist. | Nov 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Morgan State University - University Commencement - Jesse Jackson. | May 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Black History in America - Biography of Jesse Jackson. | Sep 05, 2022 | ||
| Added information about his health. | Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black.” | Jul 23, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: The HistoryMakers - Biography of Jesse L. Jackson. | Jan 28, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - International Civil Rights Walk of Fame - Biography of Jesse Louis Jackson. | Jan 28, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 12, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford University - The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Jesse Louis Jackson. | Oct 21, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Jesse Jackson. | Mar 12, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (1941- ). | Mar 12, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jesse Jackson 2012 - Biography, Politics, Religion, and More. | Jan 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jesse Jackson 2012 - Biography, Politics, Religion, and More. | Jan 14, 2013 | ||
| Closed out Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s term in the U.S. House of Representatives. | Nov 21, 2012 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Jan 30, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Jesse Jackson. | Jul 21, 2010 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Aug 26, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 26, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 10, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 04, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jan 12, 2000 |
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