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Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson

Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson

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March 6, 2026

Reverend Jesse Jackson died on February 17, 2026, March 7 is the
anniversary of the march to the Edmund Pettis Bridge, March 7
would be known as Bloody Sunday, for the violence that marchers
met on the bridge that day, Marchers were finally able to
complete the march to the state capital to call attention to
voter suppression but only with the protection of the federalized
Alabama National Guard, Jackson had traveled to Selma in
response to Martin Luther King’s call for support, Jackson was
hired to lead Chicago’s operation Breadbasket, Jackson launched
the economic empowerment organization Operation PUSH, and ran for
president in 1984, Jackson pulled together the Rainbow Coalition,
to build a base that could change American for the better, Barack
Obama spoke at Jackson’s funeral today, In his remarks, Obama
said Jackson, “inspires us to take a harder path. His voice
calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of
hope…”

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