Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Mississippi leaders share their reactions.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's family announced Tuesday that the civil rights icon died peacefully at 84 years old. For more than six decades, Jackson spent his life working to advance civil rights and advocating for the interests of working-class people of all colors.

In a decades-long effort, Jesse Jackson stood alongside MLK, pushed for voting rights, shamed corporations and negotiated with world leaders.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., has died. See his family and legacy in photos.

Eulogies are pouring in after the death of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement for decades. The protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate was 84.

The late civil rights leader launched protests against the lack of movie and TV diversity, accusing the industry of "institutional racism," but they fizzled out over time.

"Our father was a servant leader – not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," Jackson's family said in a statement shared by the organization. Jackson's family didn't specify his cause of death,