US EditionObamas hail ‘true giant’ as they credit Jesse Jackson for their success
The Obamas praised Rev. Jesse Jackson's 60-year civil rights activism and credited him with inspiring their political journeys and reshaping American politics.
- On February 17, Barack and Michelle Obama issued a joint statement saying, `Michelle and I were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of a true giant, the Rev Jesse Jackson`, crediting him with laying the foundation for Obama's presidential campaign.
- Jackson organised boycotts and sit-ins, led voter registration efforts, and his 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns expanded the nation’s view of Black leadership.
- Michelle Obama recalled an early connection to Jackson, seeing political organising at the Jacksons' kitchen table when she was a teenager, and Jackson endorsed Barack Obama in both campaigns.
- President Joe Biden praised Jackson's leadership and said he influenced generations of Americans and elected leaders, while Former President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also honored his human-rights work.
- Jackson died at 84; civil-rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton said `He was a consequential and transformative leader who changed this nation and the world. He shaped public policy and changed laws.
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"We stood on his shoulders": Barack Obama paid tribute to the late civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. Donald Trump called him a "natural force".
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Obamas hail ‘true giant’ as they credit Jesse Jackson for their success
US President Donald Trump also paid tribute to Rev Jesse Jackson, who has died aged 84.
Barack and Michelle Obama Remember Jesse Jackson as a 'True Giant': 'We Stood on His Shoulders'
Former president Barack Obama said Jackson "laid the foundation for my own campaign to the highest office of the land"Alex Wong/Getty; Jason Mendez/GettyNEED TO KNOWFormer president Barack Obama payed tribute to civil rights icon Jesse Jackson following his deathIn his joint statement with wife Michelle on X, Obama praised the reverend for "registering millions of voters" and "advocating for freedom and democracy around the world"Obama went on t…
A figure of civil rights and the Democratic Left, American pastor Jesse Jackson, who died on Tuesday 17 February at 84 years old, went through half a century of social and racial struggles. Incarnate, long before Barack Obama, the power of hope.
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