Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor, Jesse Jackson
There is a moment in every young person’s life when they encounter someone who makes them believe that the world can be different—that they can be different—and nothing is ever the same again. For me, that moment came because of
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Early mentor influence
At age twelve, Al Sharpton was introduced to Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.
by Reverend William Augustus Jones, a prominent pastor in Brooklyn.
Jackson, already a respected leader in the civil rights movement, made a strong impression on Sharpton.
Jackson’s presence and speech were described as transformative, giving Sharpton a sense of what true leadership looked like.
Jackson was involved in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a major civil rights organization founded by Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1957.
Operation Breadbasket, an economic arm of the SCLC, aimed to demand jobs and dignity for Black communities by leveraging moral and economic pressure on American businesses.
Sharpton later became the youth director of Operation Breadbasket in New York, learning from Jackson’s approach to combining faith and activism.
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