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On March 1st 1988, I met Rev. Jesse Jackson. He was running for president and made a campaign stop in Pembroke, NC of all places. My mom took me to see him. I got to skip school and everything (I was seven, I thought that was cool). A Lumbee woman named Ruth Dial Woods presented Rev. Jackson with a quilt as a gift from the Lumbee tribe. Suddenly, he pointed at me and asked me to go on stage with him and Ms. Woods. I didn't realize how important that moment was. My picture was everywhere. It was… Continue