'Keep Hope Alive!': Super Tuesday and Jesse Jackson's 1988 Campaign for the Presidency

Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination was seen as a watershed event in the quest by African-Americans to seek national elective office. Whether future African-Americans seek office as issue-oriented progressives or as more mainstream candidates, they will all have to deal with the Jackson legacy - as recipients of the opportunities his candidacy created and in overcoming the obstacles he encountered.