Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Movement
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The late Rev. Jesse Jackson's family is set to speak Wednesday morning at their South Shore home after the iconic civil rights leader died Tuesday at age 84. Individual members of the family have
President Donald Trump issued a statement Tuesday on the death of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson that included insults directed at former President Barack Obama and Democrats in general.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators.
The year is 2011 and two political giants meet in Londonderry, the birthplace of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement in the late Sixties. Nobel Laureate John Hume and Rev Jesse Jackson dedicated their lives to civil rights - on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.
President Trump and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, knew each other for decades.
During his tenure as a civil rights icon, Jesse Jackson weighed in on several concerns in Volusia County, including voting and NASCAR diversity.
An ordained Baptist minister, Rev. Jesse Jackson championed a campaign to unify faith groups around common social ills, Black faith leaders say.