# Medborgarrättskämpen Jesse Jackson död
Author: Pyttelite

***Medborgarrättskämpen och pastorn Jesse Jackson har avlidit, 84 år gammal. Han stod bredvid Martin Luther King jr när denne sköts till döds i Memphis 1968.***

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https://www.svt.se/nyheter/snabbkollen/medborgarrattskampen-jesse-jackson-dod

## Comment 1
Author: Pyttelite

***US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family say in a statement - look at his life in pictures***

***"Our father was a servant leader - not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked," they say***

***In the 1960s, Jackson fought for civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr, whose daughter remembers Jackson as a "gifted negotiator"***

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c394g14n3rzt