Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.: The man who stopped

By Dr. Frances “Toni” Murphy DraperAFRO Managing Editor More than forty years ago, in a crowded corridor in Nassau, Bahamas, I watched Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. do something small that revealed something immense: he stopped. My mother, Frances L. Murphy II—then publisher of the AFRO-American Newspaper—and I were attending a conference where he was…

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