Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Movement
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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.
The family of the civil rights icon and Reverend Jesse Jackson is expected to speak publicly on Wednesday morning, just one day after he died peacefully surrounded by loved ones.
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 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
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.
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.