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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (2390)	1/18/2001 12:25:00 PM
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Jackson, Jesse Louis The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000. 1941–, U.S. political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist, b. Greenville, S.C. Raised in poverty, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary (1963–65) and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1968. Active in the civil-rights movement, he became a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. He served as executive director (1966–71) of Operation Breadbasket, a program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) that addressed economic problems of blacks in northern cities. In 1971 he founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), an organization to combat racism. Since 1986 he has been president of the National Rainbow Coalition, an independent political organization aimed at uniting disparate groups—racial minorities, the poor, peace activists, and environmentalists. In 1984 and 1988, Jackson, an effective public speaker, campaigned for the Democratic nomination for president, becoming the first African American to contend seriously for that office. He was elected (1990) as a nonvoting member of the Senate from the District of Columbia and has campaigned for its statehood. He has written Legal Lynching (1996), an attack on capital punishment. bartleby.com Raised in poverty??? For years, he movingly recounted his impoverished upbringing to anyone willing to listen. "I used to run bootleg liquor and buy hot clothes," Jackson told television interviewers. "I had to steal to survive." His stepfather, he said, was a janitor, his mother a maid. In fact, Jackson's stepfather was a postal worker, his mother a beautician. (Upset by his stepson's fabrication, a proud Charles Jackson told Barbara Reynolds, for her book on Jesse, "We never begged for a dime, and my family never went hungry a day in their lives.") nydailynews.com