The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 84 after a long illness, was a civil rights leader, protege of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate whose work brought him to Jacksonville on multiple occasions.
He campaigned for former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and other area Democratic candidates, including a 2016 visit with former President Bill Clinton to support Hilary Clinton’s presidential aspirations.
The crowd tried to get selfies when former President Bill Clinton was joined Rev. Jesse Jackson at a last minute campaign stop in Jacksonville to support wife Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, joins former President Bill Clinton, at a last minute campaign stop in Jacksonville for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Gateway Mall.
In 2013, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson visited with Marissa Alexander in the Duval County Jail. Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in a case in which she said she was guarding herself from an abusive husband but was later released.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, prays with local ministers outside the Duval County Jail in 2013 after visiting Marissa Alexander, who was serving a 20-year sentence for firing a gun into the air to stop her abusive husband. She was later released.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, second from left, talks with local ministers outside the Duval County Jail in 2013 after visiting Marissa Alexander, who was serving a 20-year sentence for firing a gun into the air to stop her abusive husband. She was later released.
In 2006, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday, visited Jacksonville to campaign for U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, left, in her quest for re-election.
William Lucy, left, Secretary Treasurer of AFSCME, and Tony Hill join Rev. Jesse Jackson in prayer at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall on Liberty Street. Jackson was in Jacksonville to stump for Hill and other Democratic candidates.
In 2008, Jesse Jackson spoke at the National Education Conference about voter education. The conference was held by the A. Philip
Randolph Institute, a minority social justice organization, in Jacksonville.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson talks to the media outside the Duval County jail on July 16, 2013, after visiting Marissa Alexander, who is serving a 20-year sentence for firing a gun into the air to stop her abusive husband.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was on hand Oct. 3, 1998, to aid U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, left, in her quest for re-election. Brown held a rally at the Democratic Party headquarters on State Street in Jacksonville.
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The crowd tried to get selfies when former President Bill Clinton was joined Rev. Jesse Jackson at a last minute campaign stop in Jacksonville to support wife Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.
In 2013, he met with Marissa Alexander, a local woman jailed after firing a gun into the air to stop her abusive husband. He spoke of voting rights at a locally sponsored National Education Conference in 2008. And he sent lieutenants to the city to support claims of police brutality in a 2020 officer-involved shooting that ended with the death of an 18-year-old man.
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This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Rev. Jesse Jackson brought his vision to Jacksonville multiple times