Rev. Jesse Jackson Tells 50,000 in Wisconsin: 'This is a Martin Luther King Moment!'
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Jesse Jackson Tells 50,000 in Wisconsin: 'This is a Martin Luther King Moment!'
John Nichols | February 19, 2011
“This is a Martin Luther King moment!”
So declared the Rev. Jesse Jackson [1], as he finished addressing a crowd of more than 40,000 at that had filled the grounds of Wisconsin’s state capitol. A few minutes later, he would enter the capitol and address a crowd estimated at 8,000, which filled what has been called America’s most beautiful government building to
