Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If this is no prescription to remedy the nation's racial ills, it does reflect the growing disillusionment of many of the nation's most concerned and thoughtful blacks with the often professed, but too rarely fulfilled, good intentions of white leaders and white institutions. At a time when blacks...
Any one of a dozen such grass-roots leaders could be used to symbolize the ways in which black gains, however modest, are being achieved in communities. One who is more articulate and arresting than most is Rev. Jesse Jackson, an intense, passionate advocate of using black economic power to...
> In California, Sam Yorty, mayor of Los Angeles, declared that he would enter the Democratic gubernatorial primary against Jesse Unruh, the party's leader in the state assembly. "The affairs of our great state," said Yorty, "should no longer be entrusted to inexperienced amateurs"-meaning Republican Incumbent Ronald Reagan...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "Operation Breadbasket," which provides food to poor families, said, "It is easy to say that there is no cure, that the cancer is too far gone.
"If we can prove they were not disturbing the peace," Jesse C. Kasowitz, one of the defense attorneys, said last night, "then they'll be let off." In order to do this Kasowitz plans to have as many Claverly residents as possible testify that they were not disturbed that morning...