Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following King's assassination in 1968, Jackson grew dissatisfied with the SCLC leadership, and in 1971, he formed his own splinter group similar to Breadbasket--People United to Save Humanity (PUSH...
...PUSH merged with the National Rainbow Coalition, a social justice organization Jackson founded in 1984, to form the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, of which Jackson is now president...
During his early years at PUSH, Jackson's leadership abilities shined through, and he was able to mobilize the Chicago black community so that it would respond quickly and decisively to his calls for action...
...president of PUSH, Jackson targeted businesses that profited from, but did not re-invest in, the black community in Chicago...
...would knock on my door and when I opened hewould push me aside and rush to my bookcase to seewhat new books I had bought," Epps says. "He wasintellectually precocious by any standard...