Third Generation Pastor Advocates for the Marginalized
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- Published on Sunday, 13 January 2013 19:19
Rev. Darrell Lamar Jackson
M.Div. '81, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
For more than a decade, Jackson has been senior pastor of Liberty Baptist Church, Chicago, succeeding his father and grandfather in a family role that has lasted over 75 years. Established in 1918, Liberty Baptist was in the forefront of the Black civil rights movement and served as the Chicago headquarters for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jackson helped lead the effort to establish Vision House, a residence for homeless families and people battling AIDS. He has been a member of the minister's council of Chicago's third and fourth wards, the Lou Rawls Tobacco Road Foundation, and Hirsch High School council.
He served on the State of Illinois Committee for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday, was a former chaplain of the Cook County Correctional Center in conjunction with the One Church-One Inmate prison ministry, and was featured in Dr. Henry Young's book The Clergy and Harold Washington.
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