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NEWS FOOTAGE FROM JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA, SOME BLACK AND WHITE FROM THE LATE 1960S (MOS) AND COLOR FOOTAGE FROM 1973 OR 1974, WITH SOUND. INTERVIEW WITH REV. JESSE JACKSON IN JACKSONVILLE.
REV. JESSE JACKSON WITH HUGE AFRO SITS IN LAWN CHAIR AND TALKS TO BLACK REPORTER, INTERVIEW IN COURTYARD OF HOTEL, TALKS ABOUT ORGANIZING A CHAPTER IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, TALKS ABOUT HATRED AGAINST WELFARE MOTHERS AND MIGRANT WORKERS IN FLORIDA. REPORTER ASKS ABOUT OPERATION PUSH, JACKSON DEFINES THE ORGANIZATION, TALKS ABOUT THE NEEDED BLACK CHURCH INVOLVEMENT AND ECONOMIC INFLATION. JACKSON TALKS POLITICAL ACTIVISM, OPERATION PUSH, BLACK CHURCH, BLACK MOVEMENT, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, POOR PEOPLE, JAMES EARL RAY TRIAL, ETC.
1970s NEWS
color / b&w
1965-1975
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