Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Rev. Jesse Jackson at the United Nations for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at the U.N. Office at Geneva, on March 21, 2012.
(JNS) - Rev. Jesse Jackson, the American civil-rights leader, former aide to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time Democratic Party presidential candidate, whose relationship with American Jews was marked by both cooperation and controversy, died on Feb. 17. He was 84 years old.
Jackson rose to national prominence as a protégé of King during the civil-rights movement and later founded Operation PUSH in 1971 and the Rainbow Coalition during his first presidential campaign in 1984. The nonprofits merged in 1996.
His political influence grew through his vision of a "rainbow coalition" unitin...
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