{"id":65827,"date":"2026-02-17T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/jesse-jackson-remembered-as-a-role-model-for-a-generation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:05:48","slug":"jesse-jackson-remembered-as-a-role-model-for-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/jesse-jackson-remembered-as-a-role-model-for-a-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson remembered as &#8220;a role model for a generation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0Rev. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jesse-jackson-dies-age-84-civil-rights-leader\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84<\/a><\/span>, is being remembered as &#8220;a role model for a generation&#8221; in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/rev-jesse-jackson-death-chicago-illinois-leaders-react\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the civil rights organization that Jackson founded<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m remembering him as a role model for a generation of us who ran for office in the &#8217;90s,&#8221; Morial told &#8220;CBS Mornings.&#8221; &#8220;His presidential campaigns of &#8217;84 and &#8217;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.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jackson&#8217;s family said he died peacefully, with his son, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/jonathan-jackson-last-moments-father-rev-jesse-jackson-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Rep. Jonathan Jackson, telling CBS Chicago<\/a><\/span> that &#8220;my family was around his bedside.&#8221; Jonathan Jackson described the atmosphere as&#8221;very intimate and personal, and family friends coming by, and an overwhelming amount of ministers who prayed for us, prayed with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people see a political figure, and I just know him as a person that never gave up on me,&#8221; Rep. Jackson said. &#8220;I would tell people, just as a son speaking of a father, never give up on your children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheRevAl\/status\/2023709163927249246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rev. Al Sharpton said on social media<\/a> that Jackson had been a &#8220;mentor&#8221; to him, and said he had &#8220;prayed with his family&#8221; after Jackson&#8217;s death. Sharpton called Jackson &#8220;a consequential and transformative leader who changed this nation and the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He told us we were somebody and made us believe,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheRevAl\/status\/2023709360237449550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sharpton wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I will always cherish him taking me under his wing, and I will forever try to do my part to keep hope alive.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/rev-jesse-jackson-presidential-campaigns-1984-1988\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jackson won 18% of the vote<\/a><\/span> in his 1984 Democratic run, and became the first Black American to be on the ballot in all 50 states. He had even greater success in 1988, when he won the Michigan caucuses and briefly had the lead among the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Morial said Jackson &#8220;paved the way for both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama&#8221; in leading the effort to &#8220;change the way that Democratic candidates were nominated.&#8221; Morial added that Jackson &#8220;expanded the size of the DNC to bring others into the party&#8217;s decision-making apparatus.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison wrote in a Substack post that his &#8220;first real political memory was watching the 1988 Democratic National Convention with my grandfather,&#8221; and that &#8220;until that moment, I had never seen someone who looked like me command a convention hall with more than a thousand delegates behind him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Movements are not sustained only by victories,&#8221; Harrison wrote. &#8220;They are sustained by expansions of belief. Reverend Jackson expanded what felt possible \u2014 inside the Democratic Party and across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats paid tribute to Jackson, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/2023745674584764880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries honoring<\/a>\u00a0Jackson as a &#8220;legendary voice for the voiceless, powerful civil rights champion and trailblazer extraordinaire.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, who had been a member of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s circle as a young man, helped lead Southern Christian Leadership Conference&#8217;s Chicago chapter and spearheaded Operation Breadbasket, a community empowerment campaign with King&#8217;s blessing. Jackson was with King in Memphis in 1968 when he was assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>Morial called Jackson &#8220;one of the final remaining links to the work of Dr. King,&#8221; and said that Jakcson&#8217;s &#8220;most important contribution was to bring, I think, the ethos of civil rights into mainstream American politics.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bernice King, King&#8217;s daughter and the current CEO of the King Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BerniceKing\/status\/2023715161693982747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shared a photo on social media<\/a> of Jackson and King together and wrote, &#8220;Both ancestors now&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My family shares a long and meaningful history with him, rooted in a shared commitment to justice and love,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BerniceKing\/status\/2023730182486409646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">King wrote<\/a>. &#8220;As we grieve, we give thanks for a life that pushed hope into weary places. May we honor his legacy by widening opportunity, uplifting the vulnerable, and building the Beloved Community. I send my love and prayers to the Jackson family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat from Georgia, wrote: &#8220;America has lost one of its great moral voices.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With an eloquence and rhythmic rhetoric all his own, Jesse Jackson reminded America that equal justice is not inevitable; it requires vigilance and commitment, and for freedom fighters, sacrifice,&#8221; said Warnock, who is the senior pastor of Atlanta&#8217;s Ebenezer Baptist Church, King&#8217;s former congregation. &#8220;His ministry was poetry and spiritual power in the public square.\u00a0 He advanced King&#8217;s dream and bent the arc of history closer to justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jesse-jackson-dead-tributes-remembrances\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Rev. 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