The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Reverend Jesse L. Jackson

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Reverend Jesse L. Jackson

2/28/2006; 3/1/2006; 3/2/2006; 3/9/2006; 3/11/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.031

Civil rights leader and minister Reverend Jesse L. Jackson (1941 - ) worked with SCLC's Operation Breadbasket before leading and merging Operation PUSH with the National Rainbow Coalition. Jackson founded both organizations that have become the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition which advocate for economic opportunity and social justice. He has also been an active political leader, running for the U.S. presidency in 1984 and 1988. Jackson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 2/28/2006, 3/1/2006, 3/2/2006, 3/9/2006 and 3/11/2006, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 5; Total Tapes: 25; Total Run Time: 12h 08m 07s

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Jackson, Jesse, 1941-

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The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Reverend Jackson h...