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Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks to a Democratic gathering at the Cheyenne Civic Center on April 20, 1989 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. An African American Baptist minister and political activist, Jackson was a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1984 and 1988. In 2000 President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest honor bestowed on civilians. ( Mark Junge / Getty Images)

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson dead

Jelinda Montes
Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks at a Selma, Ala., church in January 1965. (AP)

Guns made civil rights happen

Charles E. Cobb Jr.