Source: BBC
Jesse Jackson was a prominent civil rights campaigner who ran twice for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 1984 and 1988.
Born on 8 October 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson became involved in politics at an early age.
He rose to prominence in the 1960s as a leader in Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
He was present with King when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.
He launched two social justice and activism organisations: Operation PUSH in 1971, and the National Rainbow Coalition a dozen years later.
Jackson remained an activist into later life, pursuing civil rights for disenfranchised groups both in the United States and abroad.
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