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Jesse Jackson shouts for attention at the Democratic National Convention in Miami on July 11, 1972. One of Jackson\u2019s early political victories was displacing the Democratic machine\u2019s delegation to the convention. Clyde Choate, the Illinois chairman, is on the right. Dave Nystrom and Ron Bailey\/Chicago Tribune By Marianne Mather | Chicago Tribune If you were to peek into the Tribune\u2019s photo archives, you\u2019d find more than 3,000 digitized images of the Rev.<\/p>\n

Jesse Jackson, the giant of the Civil Rights Movement who died Tuesday at age 84. And that doesn\u2019t include countless other moments captured on 35 mm film, old black-and-white prints and 4-by-5 acetate negatives. The old joke goes that Jackson never met a photo opportunity he didn\u2019t like. But what that really means is that Jackson spent his life in the public eye.<\/p>\n

He was marching and rallying for justice, he was building a civil rights empire based in Chicago, he was lending his star power to underdogs and the downtrodden, and he was making the case to voters \u2014 twice \u2014 to make him the nation\u2019s first Black president. The Tribune was there to document it all. The photos we\u2019re sharing here represent the earlier decades of Jackson\u2019s career, from the time he stood alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and the founding of Operation PUSH to his work negotiating the return of American hostages and his successes as a political campaigner.<\/p>\n

As Jackson turned 80, he reflected to the Tribune on his life of service. \u201cTimes change, but some values don\u2019t change. I\u2019ve spent my time trying to build up, and I want God to be pleased with my work,\u201d he said. \u201cI walk down the street, and people\u2019s hands wave and holler, and I appreciate that, but I want God to be pleased with my work.\u201d Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune?<\/p>\n

Share it with Marianne Mather at mmather@chicagotribune.com and Kori Rumore at krumore@chicagotribune.com. Back to Opinion Trump to pursue 15% global tariff But without action from Congress, levy carries 150-day limit By Michelle L. Price Associated Press WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier after the U.S.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court struck down many of the far-reaching taxes on imports that he had imposed over the last year.<\/p>\n

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SPRINGFIELD \u2014 With enroll- ment plunging at many of Illinois\u2019 regional universities, state leaders areagainpressingasweepingover- haulofhighereducationfunding\u2014 one that would steer more money to smaller campuses despite \ufb01rm oppositionfromthestate\u2019s\ufb02agship system,theUniversityofIllinois. The proposal, years in the making, stalled in the General Assemblylastyear.Nowlawmakers hope a revised version could gain tractionthisspringanddirectmore support to universities that serve larger shares of low- and moder- ate-income students, even as Gov. JBPritzkercautionedlastweekthat a\ufb01nalagreementremainsfarfrom certain. The debate comes as more Illi- noishighschoolgraduates\u2014partic- ularly those who once \ufb01lled the classrooms of directional schools such as Western and Eastern Illinois as well as Chicago State University \u2014 are looking beyond thestate\u2019sbordersforcollege.With statefundinglagging,schoolshave raised tuition to stay a\ufb02oat, a cycle the legislation\u2019s sponsors say their plancouldbreak.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you underfund schools, you\u2019repushinguniversitiestoraise the tuition at the same time,\u201d said Democratic state Sen. Kimberly Lightford of Maywood, the main Senatesponsor.\u201cThey\u2019reunableto helpstudentsstayinschool,sothey arepricingthemout.They\u2019releav- ing the state of Illinois and they\u2019re goingtootherstates.\u201d The concept has won support fromeverypublicuniversitysystem in the state except the University of Illinois, whose leaders have argued the proposed formula fails toaccountfor\ufb01scalnuancesamong universities,especiallylargeinstitu- tionslikeU.ofI. \u201cOur concern with the current proposed model is not its intent, but its design,\u201d a U. of I. spokes- person said in a recent statement University funding in lawmakers\u2019 crosshairs Push for overhaul amid regional enrollment drop, U.<\/p>\n

of I. opposition By Jonathan Bullington and Darcel Rockett CHICAGO TRIBUNE Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jack- soncametotownforarally.Todoso,he rememberedalltheseyearslater,wasto admitatruthhehadbeentryingtodeny, that he had taken part in the melee that broke out two months earlier in the standsatahighschoolfootballgame.<\/p>\n

Carson\u2019smotherinsistedhebethere; shehadbeenoneofthevoicescallingfor Jackson\u2019shelp.Herson,then17,and\ufb01ve other teens \u2014 all of them Black \u2014 had beenexpelledfromschoolfortwoyears over the \ufb01ght and barred from seeking alternative schooling in the district (a seventhstudentdroppedoutbeforethe expulsionscamedown). Someinthecommunitybelievedthe school district\u2019s zero-tolerance disci- plinepolicywastoosevereandtoooften wieldedagainstBlackstudents. Jackson agreed. And so, he and a busload of protesters made the nearly three-hour drive from Chicago to the central Illinois city to lead demonstra- tions in support of the so-called Deca- tur7. Jackson\u2019s presence put a national spotlight on Decatur and eventually ledtoacompromisethatshortenedthe teens\u2019expulsions. For Carson, the moment would changethetrajectoryofhislife. \u201cHe was, for me personally, my life- saver,\u201d said Carson, now 43.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was more than a superhero to me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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