Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, two-time Democratic presidential candidate and Greenville native, has died at the age of 84.

Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson died Tuesday. A protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate, Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad,

In a decades-long effort, Jesse Jackson stood alongside MLK, pushed for voting rights, shamed corporations and negotiated with world leaders.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist, Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, had died at the age of 84, his family said.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assassination, has died.

Jesse Jackson, one of the most prominent US civil rights leaders of the 20th century who ran credible campaigns for the White House two decades before America elected its first Black president, has died.

Rev Jesse Jackson, founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, died Tuesday at 84, his family announced in a statement.

A gifted orator, Jackson articulated the frustrations of those who felt like second-class citizens in the world's most prosperous democracy. His speech to the 1988 Democratic Nati