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I became director of operation bread basket the year dr. king was killed, i was a kid, and they had a tent city dr. king proposed, we were down and ralph abernathy who succeeded dr. king that i was being mentored by, were fighting then because they were saying the money shouldn t go to vietnam, it should stay on the war on poverty. then nixon became president and began killing those programs. after him, you had a brief four years of jimmy carter, reagan, bush, this has not been a 50-year war against poverty, republicans were in charge most of the last 50 years. mlk in 1967 says, it seems as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor, there were ....
Get wrong on the war of poverty? it was not successful, it did bring a lot of relief to millions of americans all over the country of all races, when you look at today those that claim i m talking about employers when i say those, that the problem is skills set, you have things on the war on poverty like manpower training development that train people for employment and move them toward employment, the other misconception that was outright wrong is the 50 years, he acted like this was one 50-year stretch on poverty. lyndon johnson made his speech in 64, by 67 they had begun taking a lot of those resources and putting it into the vietnam war. i became director of operation bread basket the year dr. king was killed, i was a kid, and they had a tent city dr. king proposed, we were down and ralph ....
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 the country just for you years after this speech back on the poor and out of vietnam. dr. king gave the i have a dream speech august 28th, 63. johnson s response was january 8th, 64. the speech to fulfill the dream the war on poverty, illiteracy, ....
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 reverend jesse jackson. he who attended the march 50 years ago, 1963. it seems like it was just yesterday. you know, the context, the stench of his blood was in the ....
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 civil rights leader because i admired dr. king and the like. and i think they shaped and molded a lot of us and i think that that s what we re seeking, martin and i, to do for the generation behind us and continue the generation ahead of us, because the issues are still here. i think we ve made a lot of ....