From his early days leading sit-in protests as a college student to his back-to-back presidential campaigns in 1980s, the Rev. Jesse Jackson spent more than six decades in the public eye as a civil-rights leader and politician. Born into poverty in racially segregated South Carolina, he was an early protégé of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and witnessed his 1968 assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
His profile reached its apex during the 1980s, when he ran for the presidency twice as a Democrat. Although the party’s nomination eluded him, he received millions of votes in his 1984 and 1988 candidacies, which he used to promote social justice and economic empowerment for the poor.
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