Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jesse Jackson's proposal that Black Americans be re-identified as African-Americans sheds additional light on the need for place and cultural identification, conference attendees say.
Witt echoes Jackson's thoughts about the need for Blacks to be more connected with Africa. "Jesse says that it's important to have that land mass connection and it in no way implies that you want to separate yourself when every other ethnic group does that. It just reaffirms...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow, George M. Taber, Denise Worrell
Lewis applied her principle of inclusion tohelping to bring Jesse Jackson into the innerranks of the Democratic party. "I didn't get intopolitics to rearrange the placards around thetable," she added, "I want to open up the room."
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow, George M. Taber, Denise Worrell