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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, pioneering civil rights activist and racial ‘pathfinder,’ dies at 84

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The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed to CNN. He was 84.

Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., had been hospitalized in recent months and was under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Rainbow PUSH Coalition has said.

Jackson ran for the Democratic presidential nomination twice, in 1984 and 1988.

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