The US herald of Civil Rights, Rev. Jesse Jackson supports the Forum and King Asantehene of Ashanti’s major Initiative to create a Supreme Council of African Royals !
While an undergraduate, Jesse became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1965 he went to Selma, Alabama, to march with Martin Luther King, Jr., and became a worker in King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Jackson helped found the Chicago branch of Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm of the SCLC, in 1966 and served as the organization’s director up to 1971. He was in Memphis, Tennessee, with King when the civil rights leader was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
