🔗 Jesse Jackson: A life in pictures

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died aged 84.

Jackson was a key figure during the US civil rights movement of the 1960s, and was known for being the first African-American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics.

Here, we take a look at his life in pictures.

Go see the pictures. They tell Jesse Jackson’s story. They tell our history. We are as free as we can be thanks to women and men like him.