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    'Marchers Are Full Of Hope': Civil Rights Leaders See Progress In Today's Movement

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Josie Johnson reflect on the civil rights movement and the protests following the death of George Floyd. "We're not going to give up. We're not going to stop," Jackson says.
    by Steve Inskeep Jun 08, 2020 2 minutes
    The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Josie Johnson.

    Once again this weekend, protesters filled the streets in cities nationwide, rallying against police violence and chanting the name of George Floyd.

    Jesse Jackson and Josie Johnson have a surprising perspective on those protests. He has been a prominent civil rights leader since 1960, she even longer. Both know the unrest of earlier times; Jackson was an aide to Martin Luther King, whose assassination in 1968 set off riots nationwide.

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