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Jesse Jackson's controversial ally. (Louis Farrakhan)
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U.S. News & World Report
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April 23, 1984
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Louis Eugene Walcott ... Louis X Walcott ... Louis X ... Abdul Haleem Farrakhan ... Louis Farrakhan.
The 50-year-old spellbinding orator is a man of almost as many voices as he has names, and one of those voices stirred trouble for the only politician he has ever idolized, Jesse Jackson.
Leader of the Nation of Islam, an austere offshoot of the Black Muslim movement, Farrakhan came out of seven years of self-imposed silence and a lifetime of avoiding organized politics to urge blacks to help elect a black man President of the United States.
Then, a black reporter, Milton Coleman, relayed Democratic presidential candidate Jackson's careless remarks about Jew as ...