Jesse Jackson: key figure of the 20th-century American civil rights movement
- Posted on February 17, 2026
- By The Guardian
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Jesse Jackson: key figure of the 20th-century American civil rights movement
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family said on Tuesday. Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated south, became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination
