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Al Sharpton  

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  • Civil rights and political activist, minister Sharpton was born in Brooklyn, New York, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., and was a fully ordained Pentacostal minister by the time he was 10 years old. Demonstrating strong organizational skills at an early age, by 14 he became youth director of the New York branch of the Chicago-based Operation Breadbasket, a project organized by Jesse Jackson to distribute food in poor black communities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Sharpton, Al]

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