Rainbow Coalition
RAINBOW COALITION
RAINBOW COALITION. The Rainbow Coalition was a group developed within the Democratic Party during the 1984 presidential election. Led by the African American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, it attracted blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, American Indians, and poor whites. As the coalition's spokesperson (and candidate for president in the Democratic primaries), Jackson criticized the administration of President Ronald Reagan and called for cuts in defense spending, strengthening of affirmative action, and federal assistance for urban workers and farmers. Although he received 3.3 million votes in 1984 and 6.8 million in a second presidential bid in 1988, the coalition's alliance fragmented, and its influence greatly diminished by 1992.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Collins, Sheila. The Rainbow Challenge: The Jackson Campaign and the Future of U.S. Politics. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1986.
Germond, Jack W., and Jules Witcover. Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?: The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency, 1988. New York: Warner Books, 1989.
Jill Watts / a. g.
See also Elections, Presidential: 1988 ; Federal Aid ; Lobbies ; Race Relations .
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`Heaven' blows its trumpet too long to be effective
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/17/1987; ; 700+ words
; Heaven (STAR) (STAR) Island presents a film...notions of the sweet by and by, and in "Heaven," Diane Keaton assembles a large number...and asks them such questions as: What is heaven? Is there sex in heaven? How to you get...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/16/2003; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 7/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...cat among the pigeons by claiming that Heaven is a figment of the imagination. There...The Big Boss isn't knocking around in Heaven at all, someone had better change the...there's no traffic jam on the Highway to Heaven... And when HE gets there, there will...
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Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/31/2003; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 3/31/1999; ; 700+ words
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Heaven: the Logic of Eternal Joy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 12/4/2002; ; 700+ words
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Hollywood heavens never much like Bible's
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL); 10/8/1998; 700+ words
; ...Hollywood usually uses its heavens as mere plot devices...believe in these brands of heaven to enjoy the story than...disqualifies someone from this heaven is suicide. But that...As in most Hollywood heavens, this heaven and hell end up being...
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Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 1/19/2002; ; 700+ words
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HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 1/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...take on the Pearly Gates Oh, heavens! Note the plural. Traditionally...most believers think of one heaven. But in the world of secular popular culture, there are many heavens, from the profound to the...Rock comedy Down to Earth, heaven was a swingin' nightclub...
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Heaven - 'billions times better' than here: Children ponder life hereafter.
Newspaper article from: American News (Aberdeen, SD); 4/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...fabulous, just wait until you die. "Heaven will be like doing your favorite thing...from the dead and, later, ascended into heaven. To recognize the holiday observed by...Christian schools in Aberdeen what they think heaven will be like. "Heaven will be like a...
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Heaven and Hell (Asian Focus)
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...location and appearance of heaven. South Asia. Various heavens, seven in total and...written information on heaven preserved in South Asia. Thirty-three heavens, again one above the...texts. These ideas about heaven were adopted in the sixth...
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Heaven
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Heaven Heaven is one of the most common names for a positive location or situation for...natural that human yearning for meaning and reward focused on some sort of heaven. Participants in various faith communities (i.e., “ religions...
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heaven(s)
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...or suspended from heaven (Job 22: 12...of the End , the heavens will be destroyed...x2018;the heaven of heavens’. The...x2018;seven heavens’. God's throne is in heaven (Isa. 66: 1...
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heaven
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...x201C;God”: Heaven knows! good heavens! 2. (often heavens ) poetic...telescope to observe the heavens. PHRASES: the heavens open it suddenly starts to rain heavily. in seventh heaven in a state of ecstasy. move...
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Heaven's Gate
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate is the popular name given to a small UFO contactee group that...existence through the mid-1990s remained known to a relative few. Heaven's Gate appears to have been born on the minds of Applewhite and Nettles...
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