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JESSE JACKSON, the charismatic "country preacher" who built SCLC's Operation Breadbasket and was until recently its Director, understands the importance of Brooke's position on Appropriations...
...break with Abernathy and the rest of SCLC's Atlanta contingent specifically revolved around Jackson's independent production of the highly successful "Black Expo" in Chicago, understands the economic roots of the problems of blacks in America and throughout the Third World. Although his famous Saturday morning meetings at Breadbasket ran on his personal electricity and drew much of their appeal from his "I am Somebody" exhortations, their real goal was to sensitize blacks to economic issues and enlist foot-soldiers for the economic wars of attrition Jackson successfully waged against Red Rooster chain stores and other large commercial vipers...
S.C.L.C. officials have had little to say about Jackson's new organization. Most feel that PUSH will help black businessmen more than it will aid the poor. They plan to continue Breadbasket and the other programs that have made S.C.L.C. the largest direct-action, grass-roots civil rights group in the U.S. Its organizers, working mainly in Southern states, have managed to register black voters, successfully demonstrate for jobs, and generally lead the assault on racial injustice. But some sympathetic critics, like Reese Cleghorn, a white liberal formerly on the Southern Regional Council, feel that the organization relies...
...function without conflict. Says Jackson: "We have the same goals. Now we can both work to expand on those goals in the interests of black and poor people everywhere." He refuses to defend himself against S.C.L.C. charges and innuendos. Among other things, S.C.L.C. has ordered an audit of the Breadbasket books, and refuses to accept Jackson's resignation. When Jackson quit, he insisted that all assets be turned over to S.C.L.C.: "We will take nothing that was raised under the name Breadbasket...
Although some peacemaking attempts are still under way, the break is final. How well Jackson will succeed on his new course is uncertain. Says the Rev. William A. Jones Jr., a pastor in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto who has been appointed to take over Jackson's Breadbasket role temporarily: "With his peculiar gifts, he may be able to develop a new instrument that will attract like-minded people. Whether he is giving up a Cadillac for a Rolls-Royce or a Chevy remains to be seen...