Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some Americans see this incident in a much different light--as emblematic of how Jackson, a two-time presidential candidate and a leading civil rights figure, is willing to co-opt even the most solemn issues for his own political advancement...
While he was still in college, Jackson became involved in King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization instrumental in organizing the 1963 Civil Rights march on Washington...
David Duke, he suggests, would have become governor in Louisiana, and countless politicians friendly to the civil rights movement would not have been swept into office...
Jackson's career, then, has come full circle. He began it as a proponent of King's "gospel populism,"--as Frady refers to the spiritual message of the civil rights movement--and then attempted to transform that vision into a political message...
Epps remembers West from a civil rights andblack revolution seminar that he headed...