Jesse Jackson Interview: From the Sit-Ins to Selma, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Lasting Impact
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- Jesse Jackson talks about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s deep commitment to scholarship and his understanding of the importance of action with analysis and preparation. Jackson tells a story of Dr. King’s last birthday, discusses his strategic sense to put light in dark places and Dr. King’s lasting impact on social justice today.
Jesse Jackson is one of the foremost civil and human rights leaders in the United States. Born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, North Carolina, he graduated from public high school and earned a degree in Sociology from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, and was later ordained as a Baptist Minister. He rose to national prominence through his work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), organizing in support of Dr. King during the sit-in movements and the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. He later founded what is now the PUSH Rainbow Coalition, an organizing effort advocating for inclusivity and economic and political empowerment for all people. In 1984 and 1988 he led groundbreaking presidential campaigns for the Democratic nomination on a progressive platform that registered millions of first-time voters and received widespread national support. In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “King in the Wilderness” that follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the last years of his life: from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in 1968, through personal stories of the people who were around him.
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Jesse Jackson, Director, SCLC Operation Breadbasket
Interviewed By: Trey Ellis
Interview Date: May 17, 2017
Chapters:
00:00 Meeting Dr. King
05:38 Getting to Know Dr. King Personally
10:21 Dr. King’s Management Style
14:27 Taking The Movement To Chicago
54:56 Dr. King’s Assassination
01:01:34 Mayor Daley
01:07:50 Media Response
01:11:21 After The Movement
01:16:35 Memphis and Dr. King’s Frustration
1:20:31 Memories of Dr. King
01:25:37 Message For Today
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Much love and respect for Reverend Jesse Jackson 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 My every generation honor his will to fight for Black communities and human rights
Thank you for sharing your memories with us, Rev Jackson.
Thankyou very much Rev. Jackson for your words and commitment to Dr. King and sacrifices for a better America
Rev Jackson your insight and wisdom shines through so brilliantly. Thank you so much for sharing your memories and perspective
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BLESS YOU JESSE
Amen
God Bless and Thank You Reverend Jackson For Leading Us All The Way.to Freedom. Long Live The Jackson Family.
Such a good speaker, passionate, genuine and inspiring human beings like these are becoming very rare, with Love Sen ❤
GodBless Jesse Jackson
Maybe Jesse can explain why he was on the FBI payroll and set up Martin to be killed in 1968?
You know what time it is. Speak that straight truth!!!
I been hearing that for years
Let Freedom ring and when it rings across PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH and southeast all across AMERICA and around the world in the Name of Jesus CHRIST and my father God almighty Power. AMEN
You mean to tell me that he was on the FBI payroll, set up MLK to get killed, and still didn't win the Presidency?
What a handsome man. Even in his older age.
Messy Jesse. Ask yourselves when is the last time you saw Jesse with any of Dr. King's relatives.
What difference does it make?
Jesse Jackson is a legend. I appreciate all he has done for the civil rights movement.
It says alot about American society when we know more about Jesse Jackson and little to nothing about Thomas Sowell
Big gang ok luv
Thank you. Critics, Malcolm X, observed comes with movements. Anyone who does anything will have their critics. People who do nothing will always be on the sidelines criticizing those on the frontlines. Reverend Jesse Jackson thank you your legacy and place in history has been secured.
He wasn't on the frontline.he was on the balcony, on the side
@@freepapua6778 Suffice it to say he was on the "frontlines" when he ran for president, took part in the Free South Africa Movement and prior to becoming ill was an international figure that inspired people from Georgia to China.
@@CARLSNOWDEN presidential candidate ? Africa movement?? Yeeea that sounds more like enemy lines?
@@freepapua6778 If you believe that the late Nelson Mandela was an "enemy" that Reverend Jesse Jackson supported than count me among the millions who were in the "enemy lines".
@@CARLSNOWDEN.. if you can't support your own guy as good as you supported a african an or the democratic party, then you might as well be an enemy, or just a plan trator
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Please take out warning .memory out of my cell phone
OHHHH I am SO inspired by JESSE!!!! bahahhaahhHhHhHHhhHh
get back to your miserable life.
Jesse why didn't you wear a suit to his funeral?
Hosea Williams and Andrew Young wore denim also. As pallbearers leading a horse & buggy it makes sense.
is man on the picture The Great hOudini? where is his southafrican spinx and magical pyramid? i dont understant how those crystall ball readers work? does Houdini have Magic Castles and palace in foreign coutries.? woooooo woooooo big in skyruvi country and cabenuva country?
My Mother Said You Were Our President of the United States of America.
Please take off warming out of my cell phone
14 If in the beginning was the Word, at the end there will come some Word by a prophet-messengerand the remembrance of those David Owuor, Emmanuel Makandiwa, Uebert Angel and all those magicians, reciters of verses and all their like in the countries will be blotted out. And the remembrance of those radio stations, newspapers, televisions and Internet and those new carts of David and of the Uzzahs who animate them will be blotted out. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. And the absolute of all those is not God through a living prophet but the Bible which is nothing other than a history book. Without a prophet messenger on earth, the Bible has no importance. Without a prophet-messenger on earth, the Bibleis just a golden calf in your hands. And there are golden calves and relics everywhere.If one day Billy Paul and Joseph Branham believe in the midnight Cry, before baptizing them, I will ask to burn the hat, the shotgun and all the other relics which are hung in the Branham Tabernacle. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
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Jesse face is straight not much emotion.
My Mother Said You Were Our President of the United States of America.