Word: jackson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...illiterate two years ago, is now the co-op's 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...
...large they were fiercely loyal to their adopted country. When the British approached Jean for help in the Battle of New Orleans in 1814, he led them on long enough to learn their plans, then brought his knowledge-and his guns-to the aid of Major General Andrew Jackson. Pardoned for his past plundering, he cheerfully returned to piracy...
Ralph Abernathy, chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as national black leaders McKissick, Roy Innis, and Jessie Jackson have sent messages of support...
Jefferson, Jackson. At one point Agnew declared: "The day when [newsmen] enjoyed a form of diplomatic immunity from comment and criticism of what they said is over." But as James Reston asked in his New York Times column the next morning, when did that day ever dawn? Among some famous old snipes at the press noted by Reston: Thomas Jefferson writing in 1803 that "even the least informed of the people have learnt that nothing in a newspaper is to be believed"; and Andrew Jackson strafing in 1837 some editors "who appear to fatten on slandering their neighbors and hire...
...Pockets. Early this month, a grand jury in Jackson, Miss., charged that the state insurance commission is "in the pockets of the insurance companies." The jurors added: "The people of Mississippi can only expect to be skinned by these companies." Last week a grand jury at Pascagoula handed in another critical report. Most of the controversy centers around Commission Member Erskine Wells, a lawyer whose firm represents many insurance firms, and State Insurance Commissioner Walter Dell Davis, an ex-officio member of the commission, who has been accused of being too cozy with insurers. In the wake of the storm...