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...Chicago-based national director of S.C.L.C.'s economic arm, Operation Breadbasket, Jackson has effectively coerced some 15 companies in Chicago's heavily black South Side into opening up 5,000 new jobs for blacks in the past four years. At 28, he effectively bridges the widening gulf between the young activists and the old-style moralistic preachers. His strength is his use of evangelistic fervor to achieve pragmatic ends. "You can be an orator or an organizer," he insists. "I am an organizer." Actually, he is a blend of both, and sometimes describes his occupation as that of a "moral...
...Jesse Jackson, director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "Operation Breadbasket," which provides food to poor families, said, "It is easy to say that there is no cure, that the cancer is too far gone...
...farm marketing expert.) In Philadelphia, American Baptist Minister Leon Sullivan, another Negro, has pursued the self-help goal on an even larger scale. He is credited with starting dozens of job-training centers across the country. The Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Operation Breadbasket," on Chicago's South Side, is nationally famous for its community action...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Operation Breadbasket" is an examination of Chicago's black self-help project organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written, narrated and directed by Robert (/ Spy) Gulp...
Jesse L. Jackson, D.D., director of Operation Breadbasket...