Remembering Jesse Jackson as he campaigned in Eastern Kentucky in 1988

By: Dee Davis

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: February 20, 2026

Words: 1,256

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Sometime in early 1988 I got a call. I was then executive producer of Appalshop Films, part of a multi-media Appalachian cultural center here in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

On the other end of the line was Anne Braden. Anne was a famous civil rights activist. Martin Luther King Jr. praised her in his “Letter from the Birmingham Jail.” When Anne was a Louisville Times reporter, she and her husband Carl were charged with sedition because they …

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