Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something else came through as well--Jackson's discomfiting and often confrontational manner of conducting business...
...president of PUSH, Jackson targeted businesses that profited from, but did not re-invest in, the black community in Chicago...
...would send companies detailed questionnaires asking them how many African-Americans they hired, in what departments and at what salaries. If their responses did not satisfy Jackson, he would meet with them and demand that they change their ways, all the while threatening them with a boycott if they did not meet his demands...
...Jackson also used his moral and religious authority as an ordained Baptist minister to wield influence in the political domain...
...meetings with company executives, Jackson was more likely to quote the bible than the law, to appeal to God over pragmatic political considerations...