US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who died on Tuesday at the age of 84, was active in the civil rights movement, including participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama, and emerged as one of several disciples of Martin Luther King Jr, its totemic leader.
According to New York Times, he impassioned oratory and populist vision of a “rainbow coalition" of the poor and forgotten that made him the nation’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama.
His death was confirmed by his family in a statement, which said that Jackson “died peacefully".
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