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Civil rights pioneer Rev. Jesse Jackson dies at age 84

  • By: Manesa Dhanabalan
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NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE CONFERENCE (8/9/99) Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, makes a point during a workshop of the Urban League convention entitled Political Power in the New Millennium, which also featured Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, at the George R. Brown convention center, Monday afternoon. (Photo by Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) HOUCHRON CAPTION (08/10/1999): The Rev. Jesse Jackson stresses a point Monday during a National Urban League convention workshop here on black political power. He criticized the growing influenceof money in political campaigns. HOUCHRON CAPTION (10/01/1999): Jackson.
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VIDEO: Pioneering civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is dead at age 84. His rainbow push coalition says the reverend died peacefully Tuesday morning alongside his family. His death follows his struggle with a rare brain disease. Jackson is remembered as Doctor Martin Luther King Junior’s protégé, who became more prominent after his mentor’s assassination. His original rainbow coalition is historic because it brought together people of all races.

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