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Jesse Jackson 'proved that a black man could be a serious contender for the White House'
Charismatic US 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. Despite never winning the nomination, Jackson did something arguably more significant – registering millions of new voters and proving that a black man could be a serious contender for the White House, FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson said, reporting from Washington.
Charismatic US 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. Despite never winning the nomination, Jackson did something arguably more significant – registering millions of new voters and proving that a black man could be a serious contender for the White House, FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson said, reporting from Washington.
