Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, dressed in a pilot’s cap and a Machinists union jacket, walks the picket line in Miami on Wednesday, March 9, 1989, with Eastern Airlines Machinists Union District 100 President Charles Bryan, right, and an unidentified pilot, left. Jackson spoke to a Solidarity rally of about 1,000 machinists, pilots and flight attendants at the Machinists’ union headquarters in Miami. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist and two time Democratic presidential candidate, died Tuesday, leaving behind a decades long legacy of advocacy that reached cities across the country, including Louisville. He was 84.
