Jesse Jackson: “The Struggle Continues”

Glossary

• Angola a nation in south-central Africa embroiled in civil war from 1975 to 2002, a conflict that in its early years was a proxy war in the cold war between the United States and its allies and the Communist Soviet Union and its allies
• Bitburg, Germany the site of a cemetery where World War II German troops are buried and where President Ronald Reagan provoked controversy by agreeing to lay a wreath at the site on May 5, 1985, in commemoration of the end of the war in Europe
• Bush George H. W. Bush (b. 1924), Republican U.S. president
• Great Society name given to President Lyndon Johnson’s social and civil rights programs in the 1960s
• Grenada a Caribbean island nation invaded by a U.S.-led force on October 25, 1983, to depose a Communist dictator
• Humphrey Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), prominent Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate in 1968 and U.S. vice president under Lyndon B. Johnson
• Lebanon a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, which was embroiled in civil war from 1975 to 1990; its capital, Beirut, was the site of a terrorist bombing on October 23, 1983, in which more than two hundred U.S. Marines and other military personnel were killed
• Mandela Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), South African civil rights activist who later served as first president of South Africa after the dismantling of apartheid in that country
• Namibia a nation in southern Africa annexed by South Africa and its apartheid regime after World War II
• Nixon Richard Nixon (1913–1994), Republican U.S. president
• Robert Kennedy U.S. attorney general, U.S. senator, and leading contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination at the time of his assassination (1925–1968)
• superdelegates prominent party members who vote at the major party nominating conventions but are not elected as delegates in the primary process