Gursimran Kaur

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at age 84, his family said in a statement.

An eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South, Jackson became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Jesse Jackson speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in 2016AP

“Our father was a servant leader – not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement.

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