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‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics

Leah Daughtry was 6 years old when she first met the Rev. Jesse Jackson at a boycott of a local grocery store that refused to hire Black workers. Her father was a prominent civil rights activist and church leader long active in politics, and Jackson became a fixture in the Daughtry family’s home and

‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics

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