Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader and Presidential Hopeful, Dies at 84

Charismatic Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Rev. 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.

Jackson, an inspirational orator and long-time Chicagoan, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017.