{"id":66545,"date":"2026-02-17T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-was-direct-connection-to-great-civil-rights-era-says-diane-abbott\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:55:59","slug":"jesse-jackson-was-direct-connection-to-great-civil-rights-era-says-diane-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-was-direct-connection-to-great-civil-rights-era-says-diane-abbott\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson was \u2018direct connection to great civil rights era\u2019, says Diane Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MP leads UK tributes to African American campaigner, who has died aged 84<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-icon-dies\">Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-tributes-died-84-civil-rights-latest-news-updates\">Jesse Jackson tributes \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jesse Jackson was a \u201cdirect connection to the great era of civil rights\u201d, Diane Abbott said, leading UK tributes to the African American campaigner.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Jackson was also intimately connected to the battle for racial equality in the UK, where he campaigned for decades to address institutional racism, as well as economic, health and criminal justice inequalities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-direct-connection-great-civil-rights-era-diane-abbott\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP leads UK tributes to African American campaigner, who has died aged 84 Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 Jesse Jackson tributes \u2013 latest updates Jesse Jackson was a \u201cdirect connection to the great era of civil rights\u201d, Diane Abbott said, leading UK tributes to the African American campaigner. The Rev Jackson was &#8230; <a title=\"Jesse Jackson was \u2018direct connection to great civil rights era\u2019, says Diane Abbott\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-was-direct-connection-to-great-civil-rights-era-says-diane-abbott\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jesse Jackson was \u2018direct connection to great civil rights era\u2019, says Diane Abbott\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}