{"id":146319,"date":"2026-02-17T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146319"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:53:54","slug":"us-civil-rights-leader-jesse-jackson-dies-at-84-leaving-legacy-of-political-firstsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146319","title":{"rendered":"US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at 84, leaving legacy of political firstsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostCharismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South \u2060who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jnr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cOur father was a servant leader \u2013 not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,\u201d the Jackson family said.<br \/>\nJackson, an inspirational orator and long-time Chicagoan,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3343832\/us-civil-rights-leader-jesse-jackson-dies-84-leaving-legacy-political-firsts?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostCharismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South \u2060who became a close associate&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}