Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1941. He was executive director (1966-71) of Operation Breadbasket, founder and national president (1971-83) of People United to Save Humanity (Operation PUSH), and the first serious African-American candidate in the presidential primaries (1984; 1988). An advocate of statehood for the District of Columbia, he was elected (1990) as one of the District's nonvoting "shadow" senators.
Contact Jessie Jackson at 400 I Street NW, Washington, DC DC 20001 or try the Rainbow Coalition web site at http://www.rainbowpush.org

Posted by Contact on Monday September 21, 1998.