We would like to hear your memories of the civil rights trailblazer \u2013 whether you met him or just valued his work<\/p>\n
The Rev Jesse Jackson<\/a>, a civil rights campaigner who was prominent for more than 50 years and who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, died on Tuesday<\/a> at the age of 84. Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his \u201crainbow coalition\u201d.<\/p>\n We would like to hear your tributes and memories of Jesse Jackson \u2013 whether you met him, or appreciated his work.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We would like to hear your memories of the civil rights trailblazer \u2013 whether you met him or just valued his work The Rev Jesse Jackson, a civil rights campaigner who was prominent for more than 50 years and who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, died on Tuesday at the age of … 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-66561","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\/66561","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=66561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}