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The Baptist minister was raised in the segregated American South and was a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. His 1984 campaign to be the Democratic Party's presidential candidate lost momentum after it became public that Jackson had privately called Jewish people 'Hymies'
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Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.
