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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad,Craig Hoyle and Owen Scott

Jesse Jackson dead: Civil rights icon dies aged 84

President Barack Obama led tributes to the legendary civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday aged 84.

The former president and his wife Michelle described Rev. Jackson, who was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr. and led the civil rights movement for decades after Dr King’s assassination, as a “true giant” – adding: “We stood on his shoulders.”

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