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Jesse Jackson tells black teens: "Nobody can save us but us
The pep rally is in a Chicago ghetto school; the cheerleader is none other than the Rev. Jesse Jackson (he was ordained as a Baptist minister). His style is a combination of razzle-dazzle and Southern revival meeting. But the message is a very basic version of the old Protestant...
Says Ken Van Spankeren, principal of Chicago's Orr High School: "When I speak to the students about being great, about excelling, I can refer to Jesse's speeches, to his inspiration, and that means a lot to the students."
Even better, Jackson and Project EXCEL have drawn national attention to the fact that reform of inner-city schools, often regarded as hopeless, actually can be achieved. HEW has awarded EXCEL $400,000 next year to expand into four more cities, and the National Institute of Education is funding a...
Kraft is an old hand at local politics. Among his earliest memories as a child in Republican Noblesville, Ind., are the thumping defeats suffered by his Democratic relatives in campaigns for local of fice. After majoring in government at Dartmouth ('63) and spending two years in the Peace Corps...