1941 - Jesse Jackson Civil rights activist and former national director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (a big part of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s plan to promote civil rights through the use of boycotts). Following King's assassination, Jackson could not get along with Ralph Abernathy (King's successor as head of the SCLC) so he resigned and formed his own group. In my opinion this is where the civil rights movement started to break apart - and I blame Jesse Jackson for putting... read more
