{"id":66557,"date":"2026-02-17T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-key-figure-of-the-20th-century-us-civil-rights-movement-video-obituary\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:59:12","slug":"jesse-jackson-key-figure-of-the-20th-century-us-civil-rights-movement-video-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-key-figure-of-the-20th-century-us-civil-rights-movement-video-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson: key figure of the 20th-century US\u00a0civil rights movement \u2013 video obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family said on Tuesday. Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated south, became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. He had advocated for the rights of Black Americans and other marginalised communities since the civil rights movement of the 1960s<\/p>\n<\/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\/world\/gallery\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-a-life-in-pictures\">Jesse Jackson \u2013 a life in pictures<\/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 live<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-movement-video-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family said on Tuesday. Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated south, became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. He had advocated for the rights of Black Americans &#8230; <a title=\"Jesse Jackson: key figure of the 20th-century US\u00a0civil rights movement \u2013 video obituary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-key-figure-of-the-20th-century-us-civil-rights-movement-video-obituary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jesse Jackson: key figure of the 20th-century US\u00a0civil rights movement \u2013 video obituary\">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-66557","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\/66557","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=66557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}