Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jesse Jackson's bid for a presidential candidacy reflects the maturation of Afro-American politics. No claimant group in American politics--whether interest groups like labor and farmers in early 20th century, women today, or ethnic groups today like Blacks and Hispanics--can consider itself at the maturation stage in...
Moreover, according to Waters, potential presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson, considered the nation's leading Black spokesman, may visit Boston to endorse King in October before the preliminary.
2. The idea that anti-abortionists have taken single-issue politics to a new extreme is ludicrous. Many other groups have already pushed that extreme to the point where it is inconceivable that it could be pushed farther. Witness the NRA--for years, all it has had to do is...
The stalwarts of the civil rights movement were there. Coretta Scott King, evoking her husband's memory; Atlanta Patriarch Benjamin Mays, delivering a soul-stirring speech from a wheelchair; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, still undecided about when, or if, he will announce his candidacy for President. Comedian Dick...
Jemison's spirit of social activism does not extend to endorsing Jesse Jackson if he should decide to run for President. Jackson is nonetheless enthusiastic about the Jemison administration, calling it the "dawn of a new era." He notes that N.B.C.U.S.A. is not only the nation's largest...