The Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate,

died peacefully this morning at the age of 84.

He's being remembered for his decades of activism.

His family wrote, in part, our father was a servant leader, not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world.

From the civil rights movement of the 1960s, to protesting police brutality some six decades

later.

We're all precious in God's sight.

Jesse Jackson was one of the nation's most prominent civil rights activists and a political

pioneer. His history making bids for the White House in the 1980s sparked a movement.

I see the face of America, red, yellow, brown, black, and white. We're all precious in

God's sight. the real rainbow coalition.

Jesse Jackson was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, where he attended racially

segregated schools.

His first major protest was in 1960, where he was one of eight students to organize a sit-in

at the local whites-only library.

While attending North Carolina A&T, a historically black institution,

he continued to participate in protests against segregated businesses. After graduating, he moved to Chicago to attend Chicago Theological Seminary.

He eventually dropped out to focus on the civil rights movement. During this time,

he met and worked with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jackson was one of hundreds who marched

from Selma to Montgomery, and soon after began organizing in Chicago for the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference. Jackson grew close to Dr. King and soon became a member of his inner circle.

On the night of Dr. King's assassination, Jackson was in Memphis with him and witnessed the shooting.

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