I always say keep hope alive, you know, and I, and I know he talked about the importance of getting the vote out, you know, and that thing I talked about before where he just shook his head and said, I never thought that I would have to spend most of my time begging black people to vote. What he went through to get the right to vote, the abuse that he felt standing alongside of people like John Lewis and Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. … (04:53–04:59)
CLAIM
Asserts that Reverend Jackson found it surprising and challenging to encourage voter turnout among Black communities.
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