- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Jesse Jackson
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1970/1980
- Subject:
- Religious meetings--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1970-1980
Preachers
Civil rights leaders
Clergy
Microphone
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Jessie Jackson, civil rights leader and Baptist minister, preaching in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jesse Jackson (1941- ) is a civil rights leader and Baptist minister. In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. chose Jackson to direct the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) Operation Breadbasket, a program that employed boycotts to pressure businesses to hire African Americans and buy goods and services from black contractors. Jackson later founded two non-profit organizations advocating civil rights, social justice, and political activism: Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition. The two organizations merged in 1996. Jackson made two unsuccessful bids for the democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.061.006
ahc101061006.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/194
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:194/manifest.json
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
