#16 REVEREND JESSE JACKSON
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FUNERAL CELEBRATIONS OF HOPE WERE HELD FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, REVEREND JESSE JACKSON, AT THE HOUSE OF HOPE IN CHICAGO ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6.
FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA EULOGIZED REVEREND JACKSON AS A MESSENGER OF GOD, REFERENCING THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.
FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN REFERRED TO REVEREND JACKSON AS A LEADER WHO SORED LIKE AN EAGLE CARRYING A GREAT BURDEN.
REVEREND JESSE JACKSON WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, WALKING WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR UNTIL HIS ASSASIATION ON APRIL 4, 1968 AND THEN CONTINUING ON KING’S ‘DREAM’ WITH THE RAINBOW PUSH COALITION, AND TWO PRESIDENTIAL RUNS.