Ah, the arbiter of what people give a crap about. Thank you!
susie
After King's murder, the SCLC chose Dr. Ralph Abernathy as King's successor. In 1971 Jackson broke with the SCLC and left Operation Breadbasket. The circumstances that led to his departure were as follows: A black Chicago Tribune reporter named Angela Parker did some research and discovered that, following King's assassination, Jackson had embezzled money from Operation Breadbasket. Parker went to Atlanta and presented the evidence to Abernathy, who publicly confronted Jackson with the charges. When Abernathy suspended Jackson for sixty days, a raging Jackson decided to break away and establish his own organization called Operation PUSH (acronym for People United to Save Humanity).