Outside the shabby Metropolitan Theater in the center of Chicago's South Side black ghetto, a crowd on the sidewalk listened carefully to the words coming from loudspeakers. For almost four hours, they and 3,000 others jammed inside heard the Rev. Jesse Jackson spell out his plans for Operation PUSHPeople United to Save Humanitywhich would continue the programs he started while head of Operation Breadbasket. The new organization, Jackson said, would be born officially on Christmas Day, and its membership would be a "rainbow coalition" of people, white and black, who would "push...
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