Push Protest

Jet, April 24, 2000

PUSH PROTEST: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, leads a march in Chicago on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death. The march called attention to poor conditions in schools and protested the growing pattern of racial profiling throughout the country. Jackson and fellow demonstrators marched through the streets of Chicago from Gladstone Elementary School on the city's West Side to Cook County Juvenile Detention Center and Cook County Jail.

Jackson noted the disparities between funding for juvenile detention centers and jails as opposed to public schools that leads "one group to Yale and the other group to jail." Jackson said, "There is a direct correlation between kicking our children out of second-class schools and locking them in first-class jails."