The King-to-Jackson-to-Obama story reduces freedom struggle to black liberal politics.

Evidence

Jackson figured himself as the successor to Dr. King and, in doing so, he narrowed our understanding of the black freedom struggle. Here the grassroots organizing and the array of political organizations that made up that fight were reduced to a bland black liberal politics with a charismatic preacher as its head. It was a tidy, if not entirely inaccurate, story: one that moves seamlessly from Dr. King to Reverend Jackson to President Obama. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 474

Categorization

• DEFINE: Helps distinguish the broader ‘black freedom struggle’ from the narrower ‘black liberal compact’ that Glaude argues is a trap - a conceptual distinction central to the reader’s analytic goal.