Jackson, Jesse Louis
World Encyclopedia | Date: 2005
Jackson, Jesse Louis (1941– ) US politician and
civil rights activist. He worked with Martin Luther
King in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC). Jackson served as national director (1967–71) of Operation Breadbasket, an economic arm of the SCLC. In 1971, he formed Operation
PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) to combat racism in Chicago. Jackson mounted unsuccessful campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. In 1986 he became president of the National Rainbow Coalition, which merged with PUSH to form the Rainbow/PUSH coalition in 1996.
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