The young man is the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The stoop is on the set of “Sesame Street,” in 1972. The call-and-response is a version of one that Jackson, who died on Tuesday at 84, led at ...
Before his two presidential runs and the founding of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Jesse Jackson appeared on “Sesame Street” with a simple message to share with children: “I am somebody.” ...