"Jackson later built Operation Breadbasket and Rainbow PUSH Coalition, fusing economic pressure with political organizing. While based in Chicago, these efforts sought to shift corporate and political power across the South. Gillespie told Axios Jackson understood that economic leverage and democratic power were intertwined, particularly in Southern states where Black voters made up a significant share of Democratic primary electorates. Zoom out: Jackson's presidential bids in 1984 and 1988 demonstrated the pivotal role of Southern Black voters in Democratic primaries, Gillespie said."
"Jackson will be lying in state at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters two days next week with celebratory public services through early March. Flashback: Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and quickly became part of King's inner circle. He mobilized young activists during the 1963 March on Washington and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches and was in Memphis in 1968, speaking with King in the hotel courtyard minutes before his assassination."
Jackson combined civil-rights organizing with economic pressure to shift corporate and political power across the South. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and mobilized young activists during the 1963 March on Washington and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, and he was in Memphis with King minutes before the assassination. Jackson founded Operation Breadbasket and Rainbow PUSH Coalition while based in Chicago to fuse economic leverage with political organizing. His 1984 and 1988 presidential bids revealed the pivotal role of Southern Black voters and helped push the Democratic Party toward proportional delegate allocation, enhancing future primary competitiveness.
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