Rainbow/PUSH
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- www.rainbowpush.org
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- Rainbow/PUSH
- inception
- 1971-00-00
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- PUSH
- National Rainbow Coalition
- 1990s onward
- Involvement in the Duke Lacrosse team controversy
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- Notes
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Rainbow/PUSH is an American nonprofit organization formed as a merger of two nonprofit organizations founded by Jesse Jackson: Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition. The organizations pursue social justice, civil rights, and political activism.
In December 1971, Jackson resigned from Operation Breadbasket after clashing with Ralph Abernathy and founded Operation PUSH. In 1984, Jackson founded the National Rainbow Coalition. It merged with PUSH in 1996. The combined organization's national headquarters is on the South Side of Chicago and it has regional branches in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, Silicon Valley, New Orleans, and Boston.