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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, has died at 84

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who grew up in Jim Crow South Carolina and went on to become a civil rights icon and the first Black male candidate for president of the United States, died Tuesday. He was 84. His daughter, Santita Jackson, confirmed that Mr. Jackson died at home, surrounded by family, The Associated Press said. "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," the Jackson family said in a statement posted online. "We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family." Mr. Jackson had been hospitalized briefly in November for his progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP, a rare neurological disorder with symptoms similar to Parkinson's, and was later released.