Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Jesse's not just a formidable campaigner...he has a way of connecting with an audience and captures the essence of an issue in ways that the rest of us can't," says former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, who ran against Jackson in the 1988 Democratic primary. "It's more...
In his speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention, Jackson was quite candid about the harsh realities of his youth.
"I am not a perfect servant," he declared at the Democratic convention in 1984. "I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."
In his 1984 campaign, Jackson won over three and a half million votes, and in his 1988 campaign, he surprised frontrunner Dukakis by winning the Michigan primary. He arrived at the Democratic convention with over 1,200 delegates to his name.
But a wave of student radicalism sparking riots and protests across the country could not be held back even by Harvard's formidable traditions. The campus was thrown into tumult by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), whose protests gained momentum through 1969 to the April takeover of University...