Page 5 - Operation Bread Basket News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

On their agenda. >> reverend jackson, when you hear senator rubio say after 50 years he says it as if there was a 50 year fight but as the congresswoman said we had more republican presidents in those 50 years than democrats. many that were against this program. i show you this picture of the tent city resurrection city that dr. king dreamed of. i remember when i was a youth in operation bread basket at 13, we went down there. this was the city that was built the year dr. king was killed. you were the mayor of that city appointed by ralph abernathy. that was to try to get the attention then of...

Courtesy. in 1966, dr. king appointed jesse jackson of the first director of operation bread basket in the city of chicago. king also killed the program sclc's most spectacularly popular program in chicago, adding 2,000 new jobs and $15 million in new income to the african-american community in its first 15 months. jackson became the national director of operation breadbasket in 1967, and went on to found the rainbow push coalition, and of course laid the groundwork for contemporary african-american political power, with his two runs for the american presidency. i am pleased to welcome reveren...

Rhetoric have on you and your work? >> well, i was 8 years old when the march on washington happened 50 years ago. and i was already a boy preaching the pen coastal church when i was 12, my mother and my pastor brought me to operation bread basket, the economic arm of dr. king's organization and at 13 i became the youth director and i've been involved in the movement ever since. so i became aware in my preteen years when i was 8 or 9. dr. king came and preached at my church when i was around 9 or 10. so i grew up looking up to these figures. other kids wanted to play baseball. i wanted to be a...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.