Word: breadbasket
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...sidewalk listened carefully to the words coming from loudspeakers. For almost four hours, they and 3,000 others jammed inside heard the Rev. Jesse Jackson spell out his plans for Operation PUSH-People United to Save Humanity-which would continue the programs he started while head of Operation Breadbasket. The new organization, Jackson said, would be born officially on Christmas Day, and its membership would be a "rainbow coalition" of people, white and black, who would "push for a greater share of economic and political power for all poor people in America in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King...
...starting PUSH, Jackson ended a nearly six-year association with Operation Breadbasket and its parent organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King headed until his death in 1968. Without King's powers of mediation and persuasion, rifts had deepened between the two men who inherited the largest pieces of King's mantle. There was Jackson, 30, a driving organizer who made Breadbasket, a Chicago-based coalition of black ministers and entrepreneurs, into a successful tool for building black businesses. And there was the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, 45, an oldstyle Southern preacher who succeeded King as president...
...Jackson started angling for a post high in the S.C.L.C. hierarchy. The board of directors, made up of older ministers and professional men, turned him down. Said one observer: "He tried to leapfrog too many people who were working harder than himself." Last year Jackson was asked to move Breadbasket headquarters to Atlanta; he refused. Abernathy backed down, but after that, Jackson's resignation was only a matter of time. When he finally quit three weeks ago, he said he needed "room to grow...
...organization has ample support; Operation Breadbasket's entire 25-man Chicago staff and 30 of its 35 board members quit with Jackson. Money will be a problem, but plenty of prominent blacks have offered to help Jackson raise the estimated $250,000 PUSH will need for its first six months of operation-among them Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, Singer Aretha Franklin, Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown, and Actor Ossie Davis, who is something of a behind-the-scenes power in the civil rights movement. However, those backers took care to say that...
...Jackson resigned last week from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and its economic arm he once headed Operation Breadbasket. His resignation came after a long-running dispute with Ralph David Abernathy resulted in Jackson's temporary suspension as Breadbasket director. Jackson will form another economic and political organization in Chicago, built in part around the old Breadbasket staff, all of whom quit with...