Rev. Jesse Jackson has died
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Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and political divisions.
Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84. The icon of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond was remembered by politicians and prominent activists after it was announced he died "peacefully" on Tuesday morning after a long journey with a progressive neurological disease.
About a year after Dr. King's death, Jackson established Operation PUSH, People United to Save Humanity. That later merged to become the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. It was a worldwide organization as Jackson was an international leader. But he was also a Chicagoan.
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 Jackson’s life’s work as an educator and civil rights leader brought his influence to the Bay Area communities.