Jesse Jackson Faces Next Step as Black Leadership Heir
The Chicago breadbasket program elevates Rev. Jesse Jackson as a national voice beyond SCLC. He organizes elected black officials, hints at a third party, and aims to unite black, youth, and women voters while shaping economic policy through political power.
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Chicago
NEA
Jesse Jackson
Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr
America
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Ralph Abernathy
Cleveland
Carl Stokes
Dr. King
Stokes
John Conyers
Detroit
Percy Sutton
Manhattan
Richard J. Daley
Illinois
U.S. Supreme Cut
Supreme Court
Greenville
S.C
University of Illinois
North Carolina A&t
Greensboro
N.C
King
Malcolm X
Jesse
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Humor and hardship mark America in 1971
In 1971 America faces riots inflation and recession while humorists like Flip Wilson Joan Rivers Bob Klein and Alan King seek to ease the pain. The piece notes political and everyday humor as resilience and cites international examples of laughter under oppression and a Stamford memorial for Libby Holman.
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New York
NEA
America
Brooks
Rodney Dangerfield
Alan King
King
Nixon
Aristophanes
Greece
Cervantes
Spain
Bruno Bettelheim
Marx Brothers
W. C. Fields
Israel
Soviet Russia
Stalin
Lenin
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Martin Luther King
Ek Many
Pratt & Lambert Paints
SATIN
Ires
Simplifantig
Plres
Paryson Masoni
Vane Moth OX
Loe
Uvu IK
North
Lompoc Plaza
Joyce Gabriel
Flip Wilson
Comedienne
Joan Rivers
Puerto Rico
Bob Klein
Central Park
Libby Holman
Stamford, Conn
UPI
Herméin Stark
Stark
Ambrose Channel
Mel Brooks