FILE - Jesse Jackson joins the crowd before the start of the world welterweight championship bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)
Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson died Tuesday. A protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate, Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues from voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care. He was 84.
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FILE – Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., right, and his aide Rev. Jesse Jackson are seen in Chicago, Aug. 19, 1966. (AP Photo/Larry Stoddard, File)FILE – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., second from right, stands with Hosea Williams, left, Jesse Jackson, second from left, and Ralph Abernathy, right, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place, April 3, 1968. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly, File)FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson raises a clenched fist from a police van after he and 11 others from Operation Breadbasket were arrested during a sit-in at the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., offices in New York, Feb. 2, 1971. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, file)FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to reporters at the Operation PUSH Soul Picnic in New York on March 26, 1972. With him are Tom Todd, vice president of PUSH, from second left, Aretha Franklin and Louis Stokes. (AP Photo/Jim Wells, File)FILE – President Jimmy Carter speaks with the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the White House in Washington, April 4, 1979. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)FILE – Republican presidential nominee Gov. Ronald Reagan talks with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, director of Operation Push, outside the organization’s headquarters in Chicago, Aug. 5,1980. Nancy Reagan is at right. Reagan met with Jackson for an hour then departed for Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)FILE – Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson gives his wife Jacqueline a warm embrace as he takes time out from his political stumping in Los Angeles, May 18, 1984. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)FILE – Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, right, and Rev. Jesse Jackson talk to the international media during a joint news conference, following the end of their marathon meeting at Havana’s National Palace, June 27, 1984, when it was announced that 22 Americans would be freed from Cuban jails. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)FILE – Coretta Scott King holds hands while singing with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Christine Farris, the sister of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as they parade on Peachtree Street in Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 19, 1987 to honor King’s birthday. At left in Mrs. Alveda king Beall and at right is Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly, File)FILE – Jesse Jackson, with his wife Jacqueline, concedes defeat in the Illinois Democratic primary on March 16, 1988, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Lisa Genesen, File)FILE – Civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Selma, Ala., on March 4, 1990. From left are Hosea Williams, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Evelyn Lowery, SCLC President Joseph Lowery and Coretta Scott King. (AP Photo/Jamie Sturtevant, File)FILE – The Rev. Jesse Jackson waits while son Jesse Jackson Jr., introduces him to delegates at the United Center Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)FILE – Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, left, walks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after the opening ceremony of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, Aug. 31, 2001. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia, File)FILE – Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, greet Jesse Jackson before a public memorial service, Oct. 29, 2002, in Minneapolis for U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter and three staff members who died in a plane crash. (AP Photo/Stacy Wescott, Pool, File)FILE – Former South African President Nelson Mandela, left, walks with the Rev. Jesse Jackson after their meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct. 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)FILE – From left, Vice President Joe Biden, Rev. Jesse Jackson, first lady Michelle Obama, and President Barack Obama gather after services honoring the life of Reverend Clementa Pinckney at the College of Charleston TD Arena in Charleston, S.C., on June 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)FILE – Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, second from right, lowers his head in prayer as he stands before the casket of George Floyd, ahead of a memorial service at North Central University, June 4, 2020, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)FILE – President Joe Biden walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., March 5, 2023, to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a landmark event of the civil rights movement. With him are Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., the Rev. Al Sharpton, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, waves to supporters as he is introduced during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. With him on stage are Al Sharpton, Jonathan Jackson and Yusef DuBois Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)FILE – Jesse Jackson holds his hands up after announcing he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, with his campaign chairman Mayor Richard Hatcher, left, of Gary Ind., and Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, D.C., in Washington, Nov. 3, 1983. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)FILE – Democratic presidential primary candidate Jesse Jackson speaks to a group of his supporters at a rally held at a Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio, April 14, 1984. (AP Photo/Rob Burns, File)FILE – President George W. Bush speaks with Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, after signing a bill in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Dec. 1, 2005, authorizing a statue of civil rights leader Rosa Parks be placed in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson gestures to a friend in the balcony at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 15, 2013. The church held a ceremony honoring the memory of the four young girls who were killed by a bomb placed outside the church 50 years ago by members of the Ku Klux Klan. At right is U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson waves as he steps to the podium during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)FILE – U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and NAACP President Derrick Johnson march across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)FILE – Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson with his wife, Jacqueline, salutes the cheering crowd at Operation Push in Chicago, March 10, 1988. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)
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