Civil Rights Leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Dies at 84

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84. His daughter, Santita Jackson, confirmed that her…

Rev Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and Rainbow PUSH founder, dies at 84

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil rights leader and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, died Tuesday morning at the age of 84, his family said in a statement. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family […]

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