Ordained minister and activist who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination had been living with progressive supranuclear palsy
The Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate, died on Tuesday aged 84, his family said, according to NBC News.
A statement from the Jackson family read:
Our father was a servant leader – not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world.
We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family.
