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On Feb. 16, civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr. delivered a lecture in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom,
in honor of Black History Month. Sponsored by the Holy Cross
Black Student Union (BSU), the event drew a standing-room-only
crowd. Jackson, president and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH
Coalition, began his activism as a student leader in the
sit-in movement; he continued as a young organizer for the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference as an assistant
to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Since 1992, Jackson has hosted, “Both
Sides With Jesse Jackson,” on Cable News Network. He
is the author of two books: Keep Hope Alive (South End Press,
1989) and Straight From the Heart (Fortress Press, 1987).
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