Jesse Jackson has died, at 84. In his youth an earnest crusader for black civil rights who was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he died, Jackson's place in history was secured in 1984 and 1988 when he became the first black presidential candidate to gain significant popular support. He won Louisiana and D.C. and garnered 3.2 million votes in 1984; and carried D.C., Puerto Rico, and eleven states and 6.9 million votes (29.3 percent of the overall vote, second only to nominee Michael Dukakis) in 1988. Jackson sweeping the Deep South on Super Tuesday that year on the strength ...

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