The Rainbow PUSH Coalition will officially transfer leadership to Reverend Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III of Dallas, Texas as the organization's president.
Jackson broke with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1971 to form Operation PUSH — originally named People United to Save Humanity — a sweeping civil rights organization based on Chicago’s South Side.
He stood with the family of George Floyd at a memorial for the Black man murdered in 2020 by a white police officer, whose death forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism. Jackson also participated in COVID-19 vaccination drives to battle hesitancy in Black communities. Sharpton called Jackson his mentor, adding: “The resignation of Rev. Jesse Jackson is the pivoting of one of the most productive, prophetic, and dominant figures in the struggle for social justice in American history.”
In a statement released Saturday, the organization stated,"Haynes has devoted his life to economic justice and empowerment in underserved communities and transforming the lives of the disenfranchised."
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