Jackson was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. before carving out his own place in the African-American struggle ...

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One of the US’s most prominent civil rights leaders who was a protege of Martin Luther King and a presidential hopeful ...

William "Bill" Jackson was born July 8th, 1941, and he grew up on his family's farm in Highfill, Ark. When he was 14 years old, Bill went to New Orleans and worked there for five years as a roofer. On ...

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson intoned in 1984 during his address at the Democratic National Convention in ...

A close ally of Martin Luther King, he helped turned civil rights activism into a national political force through two historic presidential runs ...

"Our father was a servant leader - not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," his family said in a statement ...

Much of Jackson’s work, along with others, laid the groundwork for the election of President Barack Obama in 2008. In ...

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THIS MOURNING: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the fiery civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate who transformed Chicago politics while reshaping the national Democratic Party, has died. He ...

"I think it shows kids that it's their government, and their government will listen to them if they are convincing enough," teacher Mary Craven said in 1987.