Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that Jackson--now host to his own talk show on CNN, "Both Sides with Jesse Jackson"--may have realized that his calling, while firmly planted within the political arena, does not necessarily require political office itself...
...think that Jackson ever truly imagined himself in the Oval Office, except as a visitor," wrote DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. in a 1995 New Yorker article...
After falling short of the Democratic nomination twice, Jackson dropped out of the Democratic primary in 1992, and has given no indication that he will campaign for the nomination...
...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...
After decades at the forefront of political life, Jackson now may actually be what he anointed himself as in the days after King's assassination...