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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Obama, Trump and Biden lead tributes to Jesse Jackson: ‘one of America’s greatest patriots’

people walk across a bridge
Civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Selma, Alabama, on 4 March 1990. Photograph: Jamie Sturtevant/AP

Three Democratic former presidents led a wealth of tributes to Jesse Jackson, a “titan” of the civil rights movement and “one of America’s greatest patriots” who has died at the age of 84.

Joe Biden said history would remember Jackson as “a man of God and of the people”, calling him in a social media post : “Determined and tenacious. Unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our Nation.”

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