Light up
your news

About Privacy Terms Help

Topic

Society US

Civil rights leader Jackson dies

9m

Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson died at 84, prompting family tributes in which his children remembered his role advancing racial and economic justice nationwide.

Write your reply

How Jesse Jackson Took King’s Civil Rights Movement to Company Doorsteps

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr. ’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice.

How Jesse Jackson Took King’s Civil Rights Movement to Company Doorsteps

Jesse Jackson dies: For hope, against despair - An obituary

Born to a 16-year-old mother and raised in the era of racial segregation, Jesse Jackson rose to become an icon of the US civil rights movement. Eventually, he helped pave the way for Barack Obama's presidential victory.

Jesse Jackson dies: For hope, against despair - An obituary

The Independent

The children of late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson honor his legacy a day after his death

Jesse Jackson’s children remember his civil rights legacy and describe him as a devoted father after his death at home

The children of late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson honor his legacy a day after his death

The Washington Post

How the Rev. Jesse Jackson taught me to keep hope alive

I am somebody because the reverend told me I was. And I believed him.

The Sidney Morning Herald

US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson died at 84

US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson has died aged 84.

US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson died at 84

Jesse Jackson: Between Martin Luther King and Obama

The death of the renowned civil rights activist marks the natural retirement of an entire generation of civil rights activists.

Jesse Jackson: Between Martin Luther King and Obama

Load more