Schlitz Brewing Company and Operation PUSH contract signing photographs, undated.

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Schlitz Brewing Company and Operation PUSH contract signing photographs, undated.

Photographs documenting the signing in Milwaukee of a contract between Schlitz Brewing Company and Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in which Schlitz agreed to hire fifteen percent minority personnel. Individuals pictured include Jesse Jackson, Robert A. Uihlein, Jr., Chairman and President of Schlitz, and Roy C. Satchell, Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Schlitz. Also includes photographs from an interview with Jesse Jackson.

4 photographs and3 negatives.

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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...

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