Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as a loyal remnant of Barry's once formidable constituency pleaded for sympathy for the man, attention shifted to his sometime ally, Jesse Jackson. Jackson moved to Washington last summer amid calls for him to challenge his old civil rights compatriot. Yet three days before Barry's arrest, Jackson used Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to launch a national campaign for D.C. statehood -- a campaign that could put him into the U.S. Senate rather than the District Building...