(AURN News) — Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84.
This morning, Rev. Al Sharpton called him one of the nation’s greatest moral voices and a transformative leader who changed the country and the world.
Jackson stood beside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was with him in Memphis the night before his assassination, and later built his own movement — Operation PUSH and the Rainbow Coalition — demanding corporate accountability, economic inclusion and political power for Black communities long shut out.
He ran for president twice, in 1984 and 1988, winning millions of votes and proving that a Black candidate could compete nationally years before Barack Obama.
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