Jesse Jackson Now Is The Time

Jesse Jackson Now Is The Time Political Busy Beaver Button Museum
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Political
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Text on Button JESSE JACKSON NOW IS THE TIME 1984
Image Description

Blue text above rainbow illustration. Below rainbow, red text. All on white background.
Curl Text UniWorld Group, Inc. N.Y.C. union bug
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
3 inch
Additional Information

Presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson declared his candidacy for the Democratic Party for president in 1984. He campaigned on the “Rainbow Coalition'' to include minority and marginalized individuals within the nation’s racial, ethnic, religious, and economic groups as well as women and the LGBT community. Jackson won five primary contests, but did not win the nomination. Jesse Jackson was born in 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. He is an ordained Baptist minister, long time political activist, and civil rights organizer.
Sources

African Americans and Presidential Politics | DPLA. (2021). Retrieved 26 January 2021, from https://dp.la/exhibitions/outsiders-president-elections/african-america…

Pinback button for Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign. (2021). Retrieved 26 January 2021, from https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.201.1.6 
Catalog ID PO1125