Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life on the campaign trail is not always easy, especially for those mired in the pack of Democrats who trail far behind Front Runner Walter Mondale. But the slippage of John Glenn caused voters seeking an alternative to Mondale to take a closer look at the also-runners. A New...
The Bethel Institutional Baptist Church is the oldest congregation in Jacksonville, Fla., with a magnificent organ imported from Germany in 1902. Services for the all-black congregation usually begin with hand-clapping gospel music from Bethel's choirs. But there was a very different service a few days ago...
Clergy in black churches, who exercise far more influence over their members than is the case in mostly white denominations, consider the cause well worth pushing for, even if Jackson loses. The Rev. T.J. Jemison, the president of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. (N.B.C.U.S.A.), estimates that between 90% and...
Black churches are well aware of the problem, insisting that church members are being encouraged to support Jackson only as individuals. "No one, to my knowledge, is preaching 'go vote for Jesse' from the pulpit," insists Noble Sissle Jr., Jackson's Florida campaign coordinator. But enthusiasm can...
Nowadays television does not simply cover campaigns, it has become the place where campaigns are enacted. Among other humiliations in being a presidential candidate is to be patronized by television interviewers. Anyone can find an awkward question to put to a candidate, but the candidate knows that a hasty, imprudent...