Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful, dies at 84


FILE PHOTO: Reverend Jesse Jackson addresses a Non-Governmental Organisation debate on racism in the media at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) September 5, 2001. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

Washington, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Charismatic 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.

"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.

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