The New Republic's Dayo Olopade interviews the Rev. Jesse Jackson on the historic significance of Barack Obama's DNC acceptance speech, 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech.
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Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as "shadow senator" for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
Dayo Olopade is a Reporter-Researcher for the New Republic.
