FILE: US civil rights icon Jesse Jackson dies aged 84

Record ID: 2341694

  • Title: FILE: US civil rights icon Jesse Jackson dies aged 84
  • Date: 13th November 2025
  • Summary: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES (FILE - MARCH 8, 2020) (REUTERS) U.S. SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS STANDING ON STAGE AT CAMPAIGN RALLY WITH CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, REVEREND JESSE JACKSON (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVEREND JESSE JACKSON, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, SAYING: "I stand with Bernie Sanders today, because he stood with me. I stand with him because he's never lost his taste for
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  • Keywords: Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson hospitalized Reverend Jesse Jackson civil rights leader
  • Location: VARIOUS IN UNITED STATES
  • City: VARIOUS IN UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA007167513112025RP1
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  • Story Text: U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday (February 17).
    "Our father was a servant leader - not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," the Jackson family said.
    Jackson had been living with progressive supranuclear palsy and was hospitalized in November 2025.
    The reverend had been a leader of the U.S. civil rights movement since the 1960s. He fought for the rights of Black Americans and other minorities alongside his mentor, Martin Luther King Jr., and was present when King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.
    Jackson announced in 2017 that he had Parkinson's disease, an ailment that constrains movement and gets progressively worse with time.
    In 2021, he was hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, and again after falling and hitting his head.
    (Production: Colette Luke)
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