Jesse Jackson Leading Positions : Executive Director, Operation Breadbasket, the business arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Meeting , Doctor .
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s organisation ( 1966-1971 ). Countrywide President, Operation PUSH ( Folk United to Serve Humanity ), a Chicago-based state human civil rights organisation involved with industrial development, moral and educational excellency in education, medical care, housing, justice and world peace issues ( 1971-1983 ). Democratic Presidential Applicant in 1984.
Jackson launched his candidacy on November . Three, 1983 ; he won 3.5 million first and congress votes, twenty-one % of the total ; he won 4 states Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and the District of Columbia ; and he more…