A chapter closes in America and Jersey faces its own turning point

A chapter closes in America and Jersey faces its own turning point

By Bernard Place THE death of Jesse Jackson feels like the closing of a chapter. For many Americans, he was one of the last living figures directly connected to the high tide of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s – that extraordinary period when moral conviction met political courage and changed a nation. He stood alongside Dr Martin Luther King Jr. He worked within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He carried forward a…