breadbasket

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King soon asked Jackson to be the national director of Operation Breadbasket.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King founded in 1957 to promote non-violent action to seek social and economic justice, he established Operation Breadbasket.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

As the Chicago Tribune reported, Collins often served a young Rev. Jesse Jackson and other organizers of Operation Breadbasket — a predecessor of Operation Push — for free at Argia B's Bar-B-Q.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2021

After Fair Park, Johnson turned his focus to economic justice and opportunity as part of the SCLC’s Operation Breadbasket.

From Washington Times • Apr. 2, 2018

When she saw him, Mrs. Breadbasket stepped suddenly back into the parlor with my ladies.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace