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Share your tributes and memories of Jesse Jackson

Man in navy blue suit holds sign in crowd with others holding Obama signs
Reverend Jesse Jackson at the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 26 July 2016. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

The Rev Jesse Jackson, a civil rights campaigner who was prominent for more than 50 years and who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his “rainbow coalition”.

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of Jesse Jackson – whether you met him, or appreciated his work.

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