[Miscellaneous pamphlets, etc.].

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[Miscellaneous pamphlets, etc.].

Operation PUSH (People United To Save Humanity) was organized in Chicago (Ill.) in 1971. National Rainbow Coalition, founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984, merged into PUSH in 1996 to form RainbowPUSH Coalition.

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Chicago History Museum

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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...

National Rainbow Coalition (U.S.)

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Operation PUSH.

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