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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson, the former presidential candidate, came to Chapel Hill on April 15, 1993, while students were occupying South Building to press for a free-standing Black Cultural Center. He met first with Chancellor Hardin, which confused and upset the students, who saw Hardin as their adversary.

Source: Reclaiming the University of the People: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

1941–2026 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Jesse Jackson, 1984
Jesse Jackson, 1984

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Marsha Tinnen's Housekeepers Association collection, 1991-2003.

Tinnen, Marsha · 1991

Marsha Tinnen assembled this material on the UNC Housekeepers Association, 1991 to 2003, roughly fifty items, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5712-z. Topics include housekeepers and labor unions in Chapel Hill, the living wage movement, community organization in North Carolina, university employees, and the name of Jesse Jackson.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jackson, Jesse, 1941-.

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  1. Yonni Chapman and Fred Battle found the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience Chapman and Fred Battle co-founded the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience, which worked on local school politics and on Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns. People: Fred Battle, Jesse JacksonSearch the index · NCpedia: Chapman, John Kenyon (Yonni)
  2. Jesse Jackson comes to Chapel Hill during the Black Cultural Center sit-in Jesse Jackson came to Chapel Hill while students occupied South Building for a free-standing Black Cultural Center, met first with Chancellor Hardin and urged him to call a special trustees' meeting, which Hardin refused. Sixteen students and a Chapel Hill resident were arrested that day.Search the index · Reclaiming the University of the People: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
  3. Jesse Jackson receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom President Bill Clinton presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesse Jackson at a White House ceremony. People: Bill ClintonSearch the index · Clinton White House archive: Remarks of the President at Medal of Freedom Awards Ceremony (8/9/00)

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Picture: Jesse Jackson, 1984. Public domain. Photograph by Jesse Jackson for President; MPI; via Wikimedia Commons

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