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(1969) The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was among five persons arrested in a rock-throwing confrontation between demonstrators and police on the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, uses a police microphone in an attempt to quiet demonstrators. Jackson and four others were arrested when they refused to lead a group of about 600 demonstrators away from a construction site on the campus. They had gone there to press their demands for jobs for black residents at Chicago constuction sites. Religion News Service file photo

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