Prominent Pro-Choice Pastor Taking Over As Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Successor to Lead Civil Rights Group
The Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III is being formally installed today as President and CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the successor to Rev. Jesse Jackson, who founded the infamous civil rights group more than 50 years ago.
Jackson, 82, has led PUSH since the 1970s but is now battling Parkinson’s disease and has been working to transition le…