JOHN RAITT - INSCRIBED ORIGINAL ART SIGNED 10/17/1986 CO-SIGNED BY: JESSE L. JACKSON - HFSID 298501
Price: $280.00
JOHN RAITT and JESSE JACKSON
Original portrait of Jackson, drawn by John Raitt, signed by both!
Original Art inscribed and signed: "John-/Peace & Freedom,/Jesse L Jackson/10/17/86", 5x8.
Pencil drawing also signed by the artist "Raitt". An ordained Baptist Minister and Civil Rights
activist, Jesse L. Jackson (born in 1941) formed PUSH (People United to Save Humanity)
in 1971. Jackson, who had begun working with the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference in the mid-1960s, had helped found the Chicago branch of Operation
Breadbasket, SCLC's economic arm. From 1967-1971, he served as Executive Director of
Operation Breadbasket, whose economic focus was expanded to include social and political
development with the establishment of PUSH. Jackson sought the Democratic Presidential
nomination in 1984 and 1988.While in college in the 1930s, JOHN RAITT began drawing
portraits of famous people. He sent his artwork to each subject with a request that it be
autographed and returned to him. Two horizontal folds. Slightly crease at top left. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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