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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is seen here with Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, just prior to his final public appearance to address striking Memphis sanitation workers on April 4, 1968. King was assassinated later that day outside his motel room. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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FILE – President Jimmy Carter speaks with the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the White House in Washington, April 4, 1979. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, talks with singer and civil right rights activist Harry Belafonte after a news conference announcing the installation of a Nelson Mandela plaque in Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park in New York, April 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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FILE – Jesse Jackson, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks at a University of California rally on May 27, 1970, at The Greek Theater in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)
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FILE – Rev. Jesse Jackson answers questions at a rally, April 19, 2021, in Minneapolis, as the murder trial against the former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd advances to jury deliberations. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
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FILE – Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, right, greets Santita Jackson, left, daughter of Jesse Jackson, center, at a “Rebuild America” conference in Washington, June 13, 1992. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson, File)
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From left, Rev. Cecil Williams, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Governor Gray Davis hold their hands high in support of defeating the recall election and Prop 54 at a rally at the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco. Sean Connelley/Bay Area News Group archive)
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, consoles a family member as they pause at the casket of Aretha Franklin during her funeral service at Greater Grace Temple, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Detroit. Franklin died Aug. 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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This March 26, 1972 file photo shows the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaking to reporters at the Operation PUSH Soul Picnic in New York as Tom Todd, vice president of PUSH, from second left, Aretha Franklin and Louis Stokes. A person close to Franklin said on Monday that the 76-year-old singer is ill. Franklin canceled planned concerts earlier this year after she was ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest up. (AP Photo/Jim Wells, File)
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, middle, addresses protesters at the California State Penitentiary at San Quentin in San Quentin, Calif. on Monday, Feb. 9, 2003. A stay of execution was issued for death row inmate Kevin Cooper who was scheduled for execution at midnight on Feb 10. (Ross Cameron / Associated Press)
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MEMPHIS, TN – APRIL 03: Rev. Jesse Jackson visits the balcony outside room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, where he was when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, on April 3, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee. The motel is now part of the complex of the National Civil Rights Museum, which is commemorating the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination on April 4, 1968. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***
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Rev. Jesse Jackson walks with his family on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated the National Civil Rights Museum on April 3, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee.
King was assassinated 50 years ago on April 4, 1968, as he stepped to the balcony. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan SmialowskiBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is seen here with Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, just prior to his final public appearance to address striking Memphis sanitation workers on April 4, 1968. King was assassinated later that day outside his motel room. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly)
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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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