The Nation - News from Jan. 7, 1985
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A Boston pastor said civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has asked him to become president of Operation PUSH, a Chicago-based civil rights organization that Jackson founded in 1971. The Rev. Charles R. Stith, 35, senior pastor of Union United Methodist Church in Boston, said he was still weighing the decision. Jackson took a leave of absence as president of Operation PUSH--People United to Serve Humanity--in late 1983.
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