How Jesse Jackson was civil rights champion who was too radical to be President but paved the way for Obama
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February 17, 2026
BACK at home for Christmas, a young Jesse Jackson had needed a book for his college studies. But he was banned from using the whites-only library, and vowed to return and read staff the riot act. The following summer, he and seven others were arrested for staging a sit-down protest against racial segregation at the...
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