52. The Rev. Jesse Jackson campaigns for Obama in New Smyrna Beach and Daytona Beach

A crowd listens to the Rev. Jesse Jsckson at a New Smna Beach church / Headline SurferHeadline Surfer video produced by Multimedia Editor Serafina Frederick / Jesse Jackson speaks at Allen AME Church in New Smyrna Beach on Oct. 31, in support of President Obama's re-election.

NEW SMRNA BEACH -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson brought his brand of speechmaking to the Alen Chapel AME Church in New Smyrna Beach the night after Halloween in support of President Obama's re-election campaign.

He then went to a second rally at the  Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Daytona Beach in support of Obama and then-mayoral candidate Derrick Henry, who would go on to become the mayor of Daytona Beach after his overwhelming victory over then-Commissioner Edith Shelley in the November elections.

Jackson spoke mostly about economics though he made it clea fm hs perspective that blacks are still being shortchanged long afer the aboloshment of slavery.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks at a church in New Smyrna Beach / Headline SurferHeadline Surfer phtos by Henry Frederick / The Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses an enthusuiastic crowd at the Allen AME Church.

"People are still using outhouses," Jackson said, adding the word poverty has become a word shunned by politicians.

Anticipating Jackson's visit, Henry had urged the voting publc to "come out and get fired up for the election season as we participate in the most sacred right of our democracy -- the right to vote, which has progressed from the hands of white male property owners to the hands of all citizens."

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