{"id":66547,"date":"2026-02-17T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/one-of-americas-greatest-patriots-us-political-leaders-pay-tribute-to-jesse-jackson\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:59:08","slug":"one-of-americas-greatest-patriots-us-political-leaders-pay-tribute-to-jesse-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/one-of-americas-greatest-patriots-us-political-leaders-pay-tribute-to-jesse-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One of America\u2019s greatest patriots\u2019: US political leaders pay tribute to Jesse Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Al Sharpton, Donald Trump and more react to death of the civil rights leader at the age of 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>Political leaders have celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-icon-dies\">Jesse Jackson<\/a> as a \u201ctitan\u201d of the civil rights movement and \u201cone of America\u2019s greatest patriots\u201d after the announcement on Tuesday of his death at the age of 84.<\/p>\n<p>The former US president Joe Biden said history would remember Jackson as \u201ca man of God and of the people\u201d, calling him in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/2023783159196754048\">post on X<\/a>: \u201cDetermined and tenacious. Unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-death-tribute\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Al Sharpton, Donald Trump and more react to death of the civil rights leader at the age of 84 Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 Jesse Jackson tributes \u2013 latest updates Political leaders have celebrated Jesse Jackson as a \u201ctitan\u201d of the civil rights movement and \u201cone of America\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018One of America\u2019s greatest patriots\u2019: US political leaders pay tribute to Jesse Jackson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/one-of-americas-greatest-patriots-us-political-leaders-pay-tribute-to-jesse-jackson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018One of America\u2019s greatest patriots\u2019: US political leaders pay tribute to Jesse Jackson\">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-66547","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\/66547","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=66547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}