The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84
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)
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84.
As a young organizer in Chicago, Jackson met with King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before King's assassination, and publicly positioned himself as King's successor.
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