Jesse Jackson Interview by Arthur Kretchmer

Jesse Jackson Interview by Arthur Kretchmer

Jesse Jackson dropped out of the University of Illinois, where he only studied for one year, to return to his home in North Carolina in 1960. He then attended Agriculture and Technical College of North Carolina. Located in Greensboro, students from this school had just demonstrated in the first sit-in. After graduating in 1964, Jackson attended seminary school back in Chicago. In 1966, he met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who then asked Jackson to head SCLC’s Northern economic plans. Jackson started running Operation Breadbasket, based in Chicago, in 1967, a group that was responsible for boycotting businesses in the ghetto who would not hire black workers or sell black products. Jackson was asked about non-violence and his views on the Black Panther Party’s beliefs, riots, reparations and welfare, “Afro” style and blackness, and Dr. King in this 1969 interview.

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1969-11

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AP2 .P69 v.16 no.3 Sept-Dec 1969

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