Jesse Jackson had a complicated relationship with fellow political personage Jerry Brown

Jesse Jackson had a complicated relationship with fellow political personage Jerry Brown

The death of Rev. Jesse Jackson this week has sparked a flurry of remembrances about his decades-long career as a civil rights champion and political figure. It’s timely, therefore, to recall an episode from his up-and-down relationship with Jerry Brown, whose celebrity was comparable during the heyday of the 1970s and 1980s — particularly one day in 1979. Jackson had founded PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in 1971, after splitting away fr…

Jesse Jackson’s Complex and Enduring Legacy - The Caribbean Camera

The death of Jesse Jackson closes a chapter in American public life that spanned more than half a century, a career marked by soaring rhetoric, undeniable influence, and undeniable controversy. Few modern figures embodied both the promise and the turbulence of post–civil rights America as vividly as Jackson. Jesse Jackson Rising to national prominence as a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson carried forward the moral urgency of the 1960s …

CalMatters Commentary: Jesse Jackson had a complicated relationship with Jerry Brown

The death of the Rev. Jesse Jackson this past week has sparked a flurry of remembrances about his decades-long career as a civil rights champion and political figure.