The civil-rights leader said the candidacies of Sawyer and Evans provided "two shots" for a black to win.

While Jackson's endorsement is considered important, the civil-rights leader does not enjoy the political influence among local blacks that he does on the national scene.

In 1970, Look magazine sent me to follow a young civil-rights leader by the name of Jesse Jackson.

He usually acted as an influential adviser to civil-rights leaders.

Kemp seems to claim half the civil-rights leaders in the country as his "good friend," but it's not all political hot air.

He tapped former Clinton administration aides, prominent lawyers and civil-rights leaders for his transition committee.

A balanced and honest award-winning biography of the civil-rights leader and the movement he led.

That is what corporate sponsors and civil-rights leaders did over Shoal Creek.

Some civil-rights leaders said his announcement about the moves made it harder for the families to start their new lives in private.

"I have every base covered being a great civil-rights leader."