Article 73MJF Obama, Trump and Biden lead tributes to Jesse Jackson: ‘one of America’s greatest patriots’

Obama, Trump and Biden lead tributes to Jesse Jackson: ‘one of America’s greatest patriots’

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Richard Luscombe
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Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Al Sharpton, Donald Trump and more react to death of the civil rights leader at the age of 84

Three Democratic former presidents led a wealth of tributes to Jesse Jackson, a titan" of the civil rights movement and one of America's greatest patriots" who has died at the age of 84.

Joe Biden said history would remember Jackson as a man of God and of the people", calling him in a social media post : Determined and tenacious. Unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our Nation."

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