Rainbow PUSH Coalition said Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III will succeed Rev. Jesse Jackson as the organization's President and CEO.
“The promise of America is that we are all created equal in the image of God and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. While we’ve never fully lived up to that promise, we’ve never fully walked away from it because of extraordinary leaders like Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.,” President Joe Biden stated.
One of Jackson’s comrade in the civil rights struggle, National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., echoed Biden’s remarks. Chavis continued: “Rev. Jackson’s transformative ‘Run Jesse Run’ presidential campaigns in the 1980s irreversibly changed America for the better.
As a co-founder of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference , Inc., Haynes has been a guiding force for over two decades, upholding the mission and ministry of the organization. “Collaboration between national and local organizations is ever more needed at this time,” he said in a news release.Jackson was born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina.
For his work in human and civil rights and nonviolent social change, Jackson has received over 40 honorary doctorate degrees and frequently lectures at major colleges and universities, including Howard, Yale, Princeton, Morehouse, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Hampton.
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