A Dream Deferred - Abby Phillip

Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, activist, raconteur, and political candidate, finally gets a book worthy of his stature courtesy of CNN anchor Abby Phillip. Focusing on his presidential runs in 1984 and, especially, 1988, Phillip highlights how Jackson built an unlikely coalition that showed how Black political power could be consolidated. His experience working under Martin Luther King; his organising the SLCC’s Operation Breadbasket in Chicago and beyond; and his roots in the deep South... Zobrazit více