Jackson: Midterms about ‘mood to fight back’
Rev. Jesse Jackson stands outside Martin Luther King Jr.'s room inside the National Civil Rights Museum. Jackson traveled to Memphis to attend the annual Freedom Awards event at the museum on Wednesday, Oct. 17. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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