Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jackson's brightest moments in the spotlight--during his two presidential campaigns--represent his most striking successes...
...Although Jackson was not the first black presidential candidate--Frederick Douglas managed to secure a single delegate at the Republican convention of 1888--he was the first serious contender...
...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...
...Although Jackson never won the Democratic presidential nomination, his enterprise was not in vain. Some Scholars believe his voter registration efforts during that time changed the face of the American political landscape...
Frady claims that if it weren't for Jackson's registration of over three million voters, most of them black, America might have elected a very different brand of leader in the 1980s...