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Rev. Jesse Jackson Dies at 84
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84. A towering figure in the civil rights movement, Jackson stood beside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., later founded Operation PUSH and the Rainbow Coalition and ran for president twice in the 1980s. Leaders including Rev. Al Sharpton remembered him as one of the nation’s greatest moral voices.
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