Here’s a look at the life of Rev. 沙普顿, political activist and Baptist minister.
个人
生日: 十月 3, 1954
出生地: 布鲁克林区, 纽约
出生时的名字: Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr.
父亲: Alfred Sharpton Sr., carpenter/contractor
母亲: Ada Essie (Richards) Sharpton
Marriages: Kathy Jordan Sharpton (1980-当下, separated); Marsha Tinsley (less than a year)
小孩儿: Ashley, 1987 and Dominique, 1986
教育: Attended Brooklyn College
Religion: Baptist
其他事实
Toured with singer James Brown in the 1970s.
Kathy Jordan, Sharpton’s second wife, was a backup singer for Brown.
时间线
1964 – Is ordained as a Pentecostal minister.
1969 – Is named youth director for Operation Breadbasket, a campaign to improve economic conditions in black neighborhoods, 通过 Jesse Jackson.
1970s – Founds National Youth Movement to raise money for poor youth and fight drugs (later renamed United African Movement).
1972 – Is named youth director of Shirley Chisholm’s 总统竞选.
1987 – Becomes the spokesman for the family of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager who claimed she was abducted and raped by a group of white men. When the case is later brought before a grand jury, it is determined that Brawley falsified the account.
一月 1988 – A Newsday article reveals that Sharpton was an FBI informant on organized crime, public figures and black civic leaders.
1989 – Is charged with 67 counts of tax evasion, larceny and fraud. A jury later acquits Sharpton of all charges.
1990 – Supports the five black defendants in the Central Park jogger case where a white female jogger was raped and beaten. 在十二月 2002 all convictions are overturned when another man confesses to the crime and DNA evidence supports his confession.
1991 – Founds the National Action Network, an organization promoting “a modern civil rights agenda.“
一月 12, 1991 – Is stabbed in the chest while leading a march against the verdict in the case of the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins. The wound is not considered life-threatening. Michael Riccardi is convicted of the crime and Sharpton speaks at Riccardi’s sentencing hearing, asking for leniency.
八月 26, 1991 – Speaks at the funeral of Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child who was struck and killed by a Jewish driver on August 19. Cato’s death sparked three days of riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, in which a Jewish student from Australia was stabbed to death.
1992 – Places third out of four Democratic candidates in New York’s primary for the US Senate.
1993 – Sharpton pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to file state income tax for 1986.
1994 – Runs and loses in the primary for Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s US Senate seat.
二月 1994 – Converts from Pentecostal to Baptist and returns to preaching.
1997 – Comes in second in New York’s mayoral primary with 32% 投票.
1998 – Steven Pagones, accused of raping Brawley, files a civil suit against Sharpton and others involved in the 1987 事件. A jury orders Sharpton to pay $ 65,000 for defamation.
1999 – Organizes a massive demonstration after the death of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man killed by police outside his Bronx apartment.
2001 – Is sentenced to 90 days in jail for trespassing on US Navy property during a protest of military training activities on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
四月 22, 2003 – Formally announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president.
十二月 6, 2003 – Hosts NBC’s “周六夜现场。”
可能 13, 2004 – Is ordered by the Federal Election Commission to repay $ 100,000 in public matching funds he received for his 2004 总统竞选.
七月 28, 2004 – Addresses the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
十一月 2, 2005 – Speaks at the funeral of Rosa Parks.
九月 20, 2007 – Leads several thousand people in a protest through Jena, 路易斯安那州, in support of the “Jena Six,” a group of black teens charged with beating a white classmate.
十月 8, 2008 – Is convicted of two counts of disorderly conduct stemming from an arrest at a May 2008 团结.
二月 22, 2009 – Asks the city government to put pressure on the New York Post for a 奥巴马总统 cartoon he says was racist. Meets with the FCC to oppose waivers granted to New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch.
四月 23, 2009 – Is fined $ 285,000 by the FEC, alleging he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in private funds. It is later found that his National Action Network gave hundreds of thousands of dollars towards his campaign that should have been covered by his election committee.
可能 16, 2009 – On the 55th anniversary of Brown v. 教育委员会, Sharpton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announce they will be working together to explore how the educational gap between races and classes can be fixed.
六月 20, 2009 – Meets with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to discuss allegations of racial profiling.
九月 3, 2009 – Delivers eulogy at Michael Jackson’s 葬礼.
四月 8, 2014 – Sharpton denies he did anything wrong when he disclosed information about the mafia to the FBI starting in the 1980s.
八月 25, 2014 – Sharpton speaks at the funeral of Ferguson, 密苏里州, teenager Michael Brown. During his eulogy, Sharpton criticizes police and asks that protestors not commit violence in Brown’s name.
十一月 18, 2014 – The New York Times reports that Sharpton and his for-profit companies owe more than $ 4.5 million in unpaid taxes. At a press conference, Sharpton disputes the report, stating that $ 4.5 million was the original figure he was ordered to pay back in 2008, but that he has been making regular payments since then and the amount is now less.
六月 4, 2020 – Sharpton announces that he’s organizing a March on Washington in late August to mark the 57th anniversary of the historic demonstration for civil rights as protests over the death of 乔治·弗洛伊德 sweep the nation. Sharpton says the event will be led by the families of black people who have died at the hands of police officers, including Floyd’s family.
