Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jesse B. Jackson

Jesse B. Jackson

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Dec 2016 at 19:06:11 (UTC)

Original – Jesse B. Jackson was a United States Consul and an important eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide. He served as Consul in Aleppo when the city was the junction of many important deportation routes. Jackson concluded that the policies towards the Armenians “is without doubt a carefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race.” He considered the "wartime anti-Armenian measures" as a “gigantic plundering scheme as well as a final blow to extinguish the race.” By September 15, 1915, Jackson approximated that 1 million Armenians had been killed. Jackson called his own survival a "miracle". He then led a relief effort and was accredited for saving the lives of "thousands of Armenians."

Reason

Good EV. It has been recently retouched. The quality is now outstanding.

Articles in which this image appears

Jesse B. Jackson, Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian Genocide

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

Harris & Ewing; restored by Centpacrr

• Support as nominator – Étienne Dolet (talk) 19:06, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
• Support lNeverCry 22:12, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
• Support - great retouch, though that DOF effect on the right seems very unnatural. -- Acefitt 08:37, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 13:45, 6 December 2016 (UTC).
• Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 23:40, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
• Support Good quality. --PetarM (talk) 16:45, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
• Support - Nice job on a legacy photo. Fascinating back story. Jusdafax 05:09, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
• Support - Support. Marvellous Spider-Man 19:02, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Promoted File:JesseBJackson.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:06, 18 December 2016 (UTC)