Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Trailblazer, Dies at 84
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, a leading voice for Black American rights who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma and Memphis and later led two presidential campaigns, died at 84; a family statement did not disclose a cause of death, and he had Parkinson’s disease diagnosed in 2015, later revealed to be progressive supranuclear palsy.
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