The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease eight years ago, is stepping down from the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III of West Baptist Church in Dallas will be taking his place.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth joins Rev. Jesse Jackson as they lead a Juneteenth march through the Loop on June 19, 2021.
Haynes said he has long been a student and follower of Jackson’s. “One of the things that I am quick to say is that of all of the degrees I may have, I must also confess that I’ve studied at the University of Jesse Jackson,” he said. “I first heard him as a college student at Bishop College in Dallas, Texas, and I was just blown away because I was trying to find my way in ministry. ... Through the years, my formation in justice work had everything to do with Rev. Jackson.
“It’s been very difficult to find people who have the ability to step into the fire,” Jackson said. But after speaking with Bishop Tavis Grant, national executive director of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jackson’s son and longtime Rainbow/PUSH national spokesman Rep. Jonathan Jackson, the elder Jackson made the decision.
Headquartered in a former temple in the Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition has long been Jackson’s national advocacy platform to promote economic, educational and political change, including two groundbreaking campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s.Born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1941, Jackson gained national prominence during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s after attending Chicago Theological Seminary.
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