Thank you, FRiend. Is my take accurate then?
‘Reverend’ Jesse Jackson — no apology found yet that I know of by the ‘good rev’rund’ ...
http://www.aim.org/wls/i-liked-to-spit-in-the-food-of-white-customers
[Spitting into the food of white customers at a hotel in Greenville, South Carolina] gave me a psychological gratification.
Source: As quoted in a November 1969 Life magazine article, as quoted in The Death of Right and Wrong, by Tammy Bruce, 2003, page 144.
Hardcopy: Printout of page 144 from The Death of Right and Wrong.