What many people may not know is that twenty-five years before he launched his historic 1988 presidential campaign and delivered the “Keep Hope Alive” speech, he was elected as president of the student government association at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). He also shares this beginning story with Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, Phillip Agnew, co-founder of Black Men Build and Dream Defenders, and Stacey Abrams, the Spelman alumna who made history as the first African American woman to secure a major party’s nomination for governor. Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s legacy didn’t begin on the national stage.
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