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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist and racial ‘pathfinder,’ dies at 84


The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed to CNN. He was 84.

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