US activist, black civil rights leader, Baptist clergyman, and Democratic politician
national director of Operation Breadbasket 1967-1971
ordained Baptist minister 1968
founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) 1971
president of Operation PUSH 1971-1986
candidate for Democratic presidential nomination 1984, 1988
founded National Rainbow Coalition 1986
Spingarn Medal 1989
wrote "Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice and the Death Penalty" 1996
negotiated release of three US soldiers captured by Serb forces 1999
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