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Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful, dies at 84, NBC News reports

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Feb 17 (Reuters) – U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, NBC News reported on Tuesday, citing his family.

(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru)

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