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Wherever he may travel during the week, however, Jackson inevitably returns to Chicago for the one big showpiece effort that keeps Breadbasket spiritually together: a three-hour Saturday morning meeting (90 minutes of it broadcast locally by radio) in which black ministers mingle with black businessmen, tough youth-gang leaders...
Jesse Jackson is somebody all right. He 'has a host of adoring admirers as well as caustic critics. But he is still too young to assume a black leadership role on a national scale. He rightfully resents white journalists who portray him as the heir to King or the rival...
Jackson is well-acquainted with the problems of poor blacks. He was born in Greenville, S.C. where his father was a cotton grader who lived next door to his mother but was married to someone else. The fact that other black kids with "socalled legitimate beginnings" teased him. Jackson recalls...
From his house, Jesse recalls, he could look down one street and watch gamblers and bootleggers running from cops. "Firemen, rent collectors, store owners, police?these were my symbols of white authority, and we hid from all of them." He could look in another direction and see symbols of black...
All such efforts serve to strengthen blacks' conviction that they can eventually compete with whites, but in a sense these steps can offer only distant hopes for real interracial progress. Proud as he is of his pact with A. & P., Jesse Jackson concedes that it accomplished little toward eliminating racism...