Jesse Jackson: key figure of the 20th-century US civil rights movement – video obituary

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.

He had advocated for the rights of Black Americans and other marginalised communities since the civil rights movement of the 1960s Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures Continue reading... 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. He had advocated for the rights of Black Americans and other marginalised communities since the civil rights movement of the 1960s Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures Continue reading...