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Article: For Jackson, Mixed Signals From Southern Whites; Poll Indicates Support Is Low; Candidate Urges Old Antagonisms Be Put Aside
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 3, 1988
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Jesse L. Jackson came back to this civil rights battleground,
seeking to enlist white support for his presidential candidacy and
what he called "a crusade for economic justice and fairness."
As he campaigned in five states that will hold Democratic
primaries or caucuses next week, Jackson picked up his first
endorsement from a white statewide elected official in the South,
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower.
But here, on the site of the "Bloody Sunday" voting-rights march
that took place 23 years ago next week, and in his home town of
Greenville, S.C., the signals were mixed on his progress toward
duplicating the breakthroughs among white voters he achieved this
past month in ...