"Black Power is organized hate and it does not subscribe (to) constructive and productive action on the part of American Negroes....America Power is color blind"
 
These words were spoken a half century ago by Reverend Dr. Joseph Harrison Jackson. This is not a man who names bears much mention in history, nor echoed in college lecture halls and high school class rooms. Suggest his celebrity, and few people will fail to realize he ever existed. In 1984 his life sized statue was unveiled at the church he led for 50 years, up until his death in 1990. It was a small observance attended by fewer than a dozen people, and there was no media present to report on the ceremony. In contrast, prior to the civil rights era, no one would have imagined he would be banished from the annals of Negro American History, and condemned to obscurity.