Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III Succeeds Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. as President/CEO of Rainbow PUSH
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN this week for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination. U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers.
Tributes have continued to pour in for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who announced on July 14 his retirement as President and CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the influential civil rights organization he started decades ago to carry on the struggle for equality and justice that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought heroically.
The organization said Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III will succeed Jackson.
