For Black Americans like me who came of age in the turbulent 1960s, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson was a bridge between us and our parents – and so much more, says Bonnie Greer J esse Jackson – everyone called him just “Jesse”… – epitomised a belief in the American Dream , of a kind that was possible to achieve; possible to be able to live. Deep inside all of us young Black people who followed him, we held it, too. Those times, from the mid-1960s when he began his ascent, were dark. People