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"Keep Hope Alive": Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President
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Civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. Jackson is known for working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the civil rights movement, and he later ran two groundbreaking presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, when he pushed to cut the Pentagon budget while increasing domestic spending on education, housing and healthcare. Jackson was also involved in international campaigns from the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa to supporting Palestinian self-determination. We remember his legacy and air interviews from his many appearances on _Democracy Now!_ over the years.
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Jackson present at King's assassination in 1968
Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns and policy platform
Jackson's international activism on apartheid and Palestinian rights
Jackson's 1988 Democratic Convention speech on overcoming adversity
King's unfinished agenda on poverty, war, and wealth inequality
King was unpopular and attacked for opposing unjust wars
Banks received bailouts without restructuring or reinvestment
Schools are more segregated and jail-industrial complex is growing
Obama's Iowa victory reflected America's racial progress since segregation
Emmett Till's lynching and Rosa Parks' sit-in as pivotal civil rights moments
Johnson told King the Voting Rights Act was politically impossible
Jackson's campaigns built on decades of civil rights organizing
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