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Posted: 4:59 PM May 3, 2009
Rev. Jesse Jackson says NAACP must help save auto industry
Civil rights activist and Operation PUSH founder the Rev. Jesse Jackson says helping Detroit's auto industry is part of the NAACP's new role.
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Civil rights activist and Operation PUSH founder the Rev. Jesse Jackson says helping Detroit's auto industry is part of the NAACP's new role.
Jackson said during a Sunday afternoon media conference that blacks are disproportionately suffering in the current economic downturn and car companies' failures.
He is to give the keynote address later at the 54th Detroit NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund dinner at Cobo Center. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says the event is its largest annual fundraiser and draws 10,000 people each year.
President Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., gave the keynote speech last year. Ex-President Bill Clinton spoke in 2007.
Obama also gave the keynote as an Illinois U.S. senator.
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