Jesse Jackson remembered as "a role model for a generation"
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, is being remembered as "a role model for a generation" in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, the civil rights organization that Jackson founded. In:
Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, is being remembered as "a role model for a generation" in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, the civil rights organization that Jackson founded.
"I'm remembering him as a role model for a generation of us who ran for office in the '90s," Morial told "CBS Mornings." "His presidential campaigns of '84 and '88 were influential in how he conducted a campaign to really bring people who were locked out and left out, people who were not registered, but also because he was one of the first to really advance this vision of a multi-racial American democracy and make it essential to his campaign."
Jackson's family said he died peacefully, with his son, Rep. Jonathan Jackson, telling CBS Chicago that "my family was around his bedside." Jonathan Jackson described the atmosphere as"very intimate and personal, and family friends coming by, and an overwhelming amount of ministers who prayed for us, prayed with us."
"Some people see a political figure, and I just know him as a person that never gave up on me," Rep. Jackson said. "I would tell people, just as a son speaking of a father, never give up on your children."
Rev. Al Sharpton said on social media that Jackson had been a "mentor" to him, and said he had "prayed with his family" after Jackson's death. Sharpton called Jackson "a consequential and transformative leader who changed this nation and the world."
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