Jesse Jackson And The Politics Of Charisma

<p>On January 15 1975 the Reverend Jesse Jackson was leading a <br>demonstration around the White House to protest the lack of jobs for <br>black youths. As the demonstrators marched Jackson was shocked to <br>discover that many of the black youths marching with him were drunk <br>or on drugs many of them out of control. Abruptly he called a halt <br>to the demonstration and sent the marchers home. <br>Within a few months Jackson launched a national campaign in the <br>urban high schools of the nation to save the black youths of his country <br>to get them off drugs and motivate them to work hard study in school <br>develop self-discipline and become successful in American society. A <br>program called PUSH for Excellence or PUSH/Excel was an outgrowth <br>of his Operation PUSH organization. Society had no solutions for the <br>black teenagers whom Jackson was trying to help and his efforts were <br>highly praised at first by the media and government officials.</p>