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N.C. Greene American Community Media “Las manos que antes recogían algodón ahora pueden elegir presidentes”. Cuando el reverendo Jesse Jackson pronunció esas palabras durante la Convención Nacional Demócrata de 1984 y a lo largo de su campaña presidencial de 1988, cambió la forma en que se concebía públicamente la...

N.C. Greene American Community Media “Hands that once picked cotton can now pick presidents.” When Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered those words during the 1984 Democratic National Convention and throughout his 1988 presidential campaign, he shifted how Black political participation was publicly imagined. He placed the descendants of enslaved laborers...