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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights champion, is dead. He was 84. The two men had worked together since 1965, when they met in Selma, ...

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.

CHICAGO (TNND) — Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a prominent American civil rights leader who worked closely with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and continued his work after his death, died Tuesday. He was 84.