From JanellRoss: What America loses without Jesse Jackson’s voice
, women who have held high-level positions inside the White House, the Democratic Party, and multiple presidential campaigns since the 1980s.
In 1989, Ron Brown, a Jackson aide, was elected the Democratic Party’s chairman, the first Black person to lead a major U.S. political party. The year before that, Brown had spearheaded a Jackson project to transform key party rules related to the process that produces a White House nominee. Jackson’s performance in the 1988 Democratic Party primaries and his crowd-stirring” speech at the party’s convention gave him the leverage to end the winner-takes-all primary system.
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