Al Sharpton Wallpapers

Al Sharpton wallpapers - Biography - Sharpton, Movin' on up. Preaching prodigy, FBI informant, civil rights leader, stabbing victim, Senate candidate, mayoral candidate, slander defendant -- the controversial Rev. Al Sharpton's resume covers a lot of ground. Among his career highlights: Baptized at age 3, Sharpton delivered his first sermon a year later: "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled." At 10, he was an ordained Pentecostal minister. The preacher showed a taste for politics, too. At age 14, Sharpton ran a local Congressional campaign and rubbed elbows with Jackson and U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. After graduating high school, he became youth coordinator for U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign. Sharpton's life took another turn in 1973, when he was befriended by singer James Brown. The "Godfather of Soul" had recently lost his son, Teddy, in an auto accident, and Sharpton became something of a surrogate son. Sharpton emerged in the mid-1980s as a self-promoting spokesman for the Black community. He became known as "Reverend 911," answering every call for assistance. Sharpton scored a victory when several white Howard Beach youths were convicted in 1987 of chasing a Black man to his death. But his next major case, involving a teen named Tawana Brawley that was called a lie by a grand jury and is the basis of the current lawsuit, was nearly his undoing. Sharpton was subsequently revealed as an FBI informant, indicted (and acquitted) of tax evasion, and blamed by a majority of New Yorkers for the city's racial woes. He bounced back, mounting two U.S. Senate campaigns and slowly becoming a voice of reason. Sharpton was complimented for staying above the mud-slinging of the 1992 Senate race with Robert Abrams, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman.In the most recent New York City mayoral race, in which he missed forcing a runoff with Ruth Messinger by a few votes, he became a leading critic of the alleged police torture of a Haitian immigrant last month -- a case that appears to have won him support in the polls.

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