Jesse Jackson, one of the most prominent US civil rights leaders of the 20th century who ran for the White House two decades before America elected its first Black president, has died. He was 84.
He died on Tuesday, surrounded by his family, according to a statement. He had disclosed in 2017 that he had Parkinson’s disease.
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family wrote.
An acolyte of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson was present when King was ...
