LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Jesse Jackson campaigns to get more black people on US voting register

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

7 Jan 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:05:15

Description

Report on the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s campaign to get more black people on the United States voting register. Jackson, who spoke in Brixton, London, at the end of last year, has no chance of becoming president this year but Bonnie Angelo, London bureau chief of Time magazine, says he will get a high profile and become a national figure. She feels that a newer, Ivy League- or major university-trained citizen will make the first American black president. Male reporter not identified (poss. Mark Mardell).

Contributors

Bonnie Angelo; Jesse Jackson; Mark Mardell?

Keywords

USA; Elections; Politics; London; Religion; Clergy; Voting behaviour; Black peoples; Martin Luther King; Presidents; Brixton; Syria; Chicago; Registers; Baptists

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