02/19/2026
The portrait of Jesse L. Jackson that hangs in the MLK Chapel Halls of Honor at Morehouse College. 🙏🏽🕊️ 1941-2026
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Rest well, Sir. Thank you for carrying the torch.
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He was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and seeking the presidency. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.”
“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised,” Mr. Jackson said in the rolling cadences of the pulpit at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. “They are restless and seek relief.” — Source: NYT
