PranKk Posted February 17 Posted February 17 US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died aged 84. Jackson was a key figure during the US civil rights movement of the 1960s, and was known for being the first African-American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics. Here, we take a look at his life in pictures. Jackson pictured in 1965 with Rosa Parks, whose arrest 10 years prior sparked the Montgomery bus boycott Jackson (centre left) stands alongside Martin Luther King Jr (centre right), Hosea Williams (left), and Ralph Abernathy (right) on the balcony of a Memphis hotel on 3 April 1968 - the day before King was assassinated In 1971, Jackson formed Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) - a new, wide-ranging civil rights group that championed inner-city education and programmes that saw businesses employing black workers Jackson shakes the hands of onlookers at the 20th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr had delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0zjz58nzqo
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