MLK author claim: King said that Jesse was using civil rights movement to promote himself

Of course, that claim, not from Martin Luther King, has been used against Jesse Jackson for years.

Jesse is denying the author's allegation.

From the Chicago Tribune:

At the annual commemoration in Chicago of the birth of the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Rev. Jesse Jackson today found himself disputing a biographer's assertion that the civil rights leader once accused Jackson of trying to use the movement to promote himself.

The passage in question is in historian Taylor Branch's recently published "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68," the third and final installment of his biography of King.

Following a breakfast in King's honor held every year by Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Jackson this morning told reporters that King and his colleagues often argued about strategy, but that after those meetings everyone reached consensus.